Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (Eclipse (Addison-Wesley)): Amazon.de: Eric Clayberg, Dan Rubel: Englische Bücher

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"I'm often asked, 'What are the best books about Eclipse?' Number one on my list, every time, is Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins. I find it to be the clearest and most relevant book about Eclipse for the real-world software developer. Other Eclipse books focus on the internal Eclipse architecture or on repeating the Eclipse documentation, whereas this book is laser focused on the issues and concepts that matter when you're trying to build a product." -- Bjorn Freeman-Benson Director, Open Source Process, Eclipse Foundation "As the title suggests, this massive tome is intended as a guide to best practices for writing Eclipse plug-ins. I think in that respect it succeeds handily. Before you even think about distributing a plug-in you've written, read this book." -- Ernest Friedman-Hill Sheriff, JavaRanch.com "If you're looking for just one Eclipse plug-in development book that will be your guide, this is the one. While there are other books available on Eclipse, few dive as deep as Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins." -- Simon Archer "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins was an invaluable training aid for all of our team members. In fact, training our team without the use of this book as a base would have been virtually impossible. It is now required reading for all our developers and helped us deliver a brand-new, very complex product on time and on budget thanks to the great job this book does of explaining the process of building plug-ins for Eclipse." -- Bruce Gruenbaum "This is easily one of the most useful books I own. If you are new to developing Eclipse plug-ins, it is a 'must-have' that will save you lots of time and effort. You will find lots of good advice in here, especially things that will help add a whole layer of professionalism and completeness to any plug-in. The book is very focused, well-structured, thorough, clearly written, and doesn't contain a single page of 'waffly page filler.' The diagrams explaining the relationships between the different components and manifest sections are excellent and aid in understanding how everything fits together. This book goes well beyond Actions, Views, and Editors, and I think everyone will benefit from the authors' experience. I certainly have." -- Tony Saveski "The authors of this seminal book have decades of proven experience with the most productive and robust software engineering technologies ever developed. Their experiences have now been well applied to the use of Eclipse for more effective Java development. A must-have for any serious software engineering professional!" -- Ed Klimas "Just wanted to also let you know this is an excellent book! Thanks for putting forth the effort to create a book that is easy to read and technical at the same time!" -- Brooke Hedrick "The key to developing great plug-ins for Eclipse is understanding where and how to extend the IDE, and that's what this book gives you. It is a must for serious plug-in developers, especially those building commercial applications. I wouldn't be without it." -- Brian Wilkerson

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Producing a commercial-quality plug-in means going above and beyond the minimal requirements needed to integrate with Eclipse. It means attending to all those details that contribute to the "fit and polish" of a commercial offering. This comprehensive guide covers the entire process of plug-in development, including all the extra steps needed to achieve the highest quality results. Building on two internationally best-selling previous editions, Eclipse Plug-ins, Third Edition, has been fully revised to reflect the powerful new capabilities of Eclipse 3.4. Leading Eclipse experts Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel present detailed, practical coverage of every aspect of plug-in development, as well as specific, proven solutions for the challenges developers are most likely to encounter. All code examples, relevant API listings, diagrams, and screen captures have been thoroughly updated to reflect both the Eclipse 3.4 API and the latest Java syntax. In addition, Clayberg and Rubel have completely revamped their popular Favorites View case study, reworking much of its content and recreating its code from scratch. The authors carefully cover new functionality added to existing Eclipse features, such as views and editors, and fully explain brand-new features such as Commands, GEF, and PDE Build. This extensively revised edition * Thoroughly covers Eclipse's new preferences * Illuminates the powerful new Eclipse Command Framework, which replaces Eclipse's older Action Framework * Presents extensive new discussions of using commands with views and editors * Introduces Mylyn, the new task-focused interface that reduces information overload and simplifies multi-tasking * Contains an all-new chapter on using the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) to build dynamic, interactive graphical user interface elements * Walks you step by step through the entire PDE Build process * Shows how to create update sites with p2, which replaces Eclipse's old Update Manager This book is designed for every experienced developer interested in extending the Eclipse platform, the Rational Software Development Platform, or any other platform that supports Eclipse plug-ins.

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Nice and (almost) complete 7. Dezember 2004

Von Florian Georg

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This book is nicely written and tells you in detail how to build high quality Eclipse plugins.
Almost all subjects are covered: the plugin fundamentials, defining own extension points, workspace and resources, views/editors, SWT/JFace, product branding and so on.
All is illustrated with helpful diagrams.

The only downsides are the "read as a whole style" and some missing subjects.
This is mainly because a global example (a Favorites-View) is evolving through the book, so it is clear that some stuff is missing, as it's not needed by the example project (e.g. SourceEditors/CodeCompletion)
Also, this makes it a bit hard to be used as a reference - you'll have to read whole chapters in order to dive into a subject.

But all this is rather minor, and you'll never be able to cover all with one single book anyway;
For building a commercial quality, stable basement for your Eclipse-based product, this book is a very good choice.

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Highly practical, deeply technical: Excellent source for plugin developers 16. M�rz 2007

Von Dr. Gernot Starke

If the mere thought of "Eclipse plugin development" begins to speculate about crossing your mind (HGTTG, thanx) - go for THIS book.

It starts from the beginning - but takes of after the first 100 pages and delves deep into plugin-nitty-gritty-stuff.

Explains the Eclipse ecosystem architecture (good to get an overview), gives a brief SWT intro (also good to get a first and second grasp) and then covers a plethora of useful technical details (i18n, dialogs, wizards, preference apges, builders, natures, tracking-resource-changes, search and the like).

Covers both Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2.

The authors are techno-guys from Instantiations, a company well-known for its (partially Eclipse-based) Code-Pro tools - belonging to the REALLY advanced plugins - so those guys *really* know what they're writing about.

I gave only 4 stars because I personally had wished for more "architectural" information and a bit less "deep-tech"...

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Sehr gute Einführung 18. November 2009

Von Peter Panter

Auf gut 800 Seiten stellen die Autoren die vielfältigen Erweiterungsmöglichkeiten von Eclipse dar und geben zusätzlich Hinweise, welche Richtlinien ein Anwender dabei befolgen sollte.

Clayberg und Rubel verwenden dazu eine Beispielanwendung ("Favorites"), die sich durch das ganze Buch wie ein roter Faden zieht. Neben Standardanwendungen wie z. B. Editoren, Viewer und Builder werden auch Themen wie asynchrone Jobs, GEF sowie einige Spezialaufgaben ausführlich und meistens verständlich besprochen.

Bei dem wichtigen und zentralen Thema des Object Adapters ist der Leser leider gezwungen, sich den Stoff aus mehreren Kapitel zusammenzustellen, gelbe Klebezettel haben sich hier als äusserst nützlich erwiesen. Weiterhin wurde bei den Editoren z. B. das Syntax-Highlighting ausgespart und auch manches Code-Beispiel funktioniert aufgrund von Änderungen in der Eclipse-API nicht sofort.

Insgesamt ein ein sehr nützliches und informatives Nachschlagewerk. Die o. a. Lücken und Schwächen drücken die Wertung leider auf 4 Sterne. Dennoch ist das Buch eine wertvolle Starthilfe in die faszinierende Eclipse-Welt.