Chapter 1. Creating Your First Plug-in

Eclipse – an IDE for everything and nothing in particular.

Eclipse is a highly modular application consisting of hundreds of plug-ins, and can be extended by installing additional plug-ins. Plug-ins are developed and debugged with the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE).

In this chapter we will:

• Set up an Eclipse environment for doing plug-in development
• Create a plug-in with the new plug-in wizard
• Launch a new Eclipse instance with the plug-in enabled
• Debug the Eclipse plug-in