Part III. Circle Two: The Rest of the Plug-In
Circle One has left us with the basics of a plug-in. We have some functionality running, we can deploy it for easy installation, and, with the testing techniques just introduced, we can extend it.
By the end of Circle Two we will integrate our test runner more deeply into Eclipse, touching along the way most of the areas that you will encounter as you write your own contributions. In addition, we will surround our plug-in with all the trappings of a full-fledged product.
In this circle, we'll encounter the following topics:
A view built out of existing widgets (Chapter 13)
A context menu that accepts contributions (Chapter 14)
A new kind of marker (Chapter 15 and Chapter 16)
Searching a Java project programmatically ...
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