Chapter 7 – Creating Eclipse 4 Applications
Understanding E4
1. The application model is stored in the e4xmi file, and provides a way of representing the entire state of the application's UI. It is also persisted on save and then reloaded at startup, so positions of parts and their visibility are persisted. The model is also accessible at runtime via the various M* classes such as MApplication and MPart, and can be queried and mutated at runtime.
2. Parts are a more generic form of views and editors. Unlike Eclipse 3.x, not everything needs to fit into a View or Editor category; they are all just parts that contain UI components underneath, and can be organized appropriately.
3. Although extension points aren't used for things like commands, keybindings ...
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