Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Time for action – creating a nature

A nature is created by implementing the IProjectNature interface. This will be used to create a MinimarkNature class, which will allow projects to be associated with the MinimarkBuilder class.

1. Create a class called MinimarkNature in the com.packtpub.e4.minimark.ui package as follows:

   public class MinimarkNature implements IProjectNature {
     public static final String ID =
      "com.packtpub.e4.minimark.ui.MinimarkNature";
     private IProject project;
     public IProject getProject() {
       return project;
     }
     public void setProject(IProject project) {
       this.project = project;
     }
     public void configure() throws CoreException {
     }
     public void deconfigure() throws CoreException {
     }
   }

2. The purpose of a nature is to assist by adding (or configuring) ...