Foreword by Simon Archer
In the 1990s, when Java was in its infancy, learning the Java class libraries involved studying a handful of classes in four or five packages. The Java class libraries have grown in size and complexity, presenting a significant problem to developers wishing to learn Java today. Just like Java, the Eclipse platform has necessarily grown over the years, and therefore considerably more time and effort is required to learn Eclipse 3.4 than its predecessors. One of the principles of the Eclipse platform is that a plug-in should integrate seamlessly with the workbench and with other plug-ins. To achieve seamless integration, it is necessary for plug-in developers to understand the best practices, conventions, and strategies ...
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