Part IIIExtending WTP
As we explained in Chapter 2, About the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project, WTP provides both Eclipse tools that can be used for Web application development and a platform that allows you to extend the tools. Our goal in this part of the book is to provide you with an overview of some of WTP’s extension points.
One of the primary goals driving the development of WTP’s APIs is that they must be of platform quality, which means that they are of high quality and are stable. Once an API is released, it will be maintained in future releases. Plug-ins that only use platforms APIs should work on future versions of WTP.
Throughout this section you will see that many of the extensions discussed use provisional APIs. A provisional ...
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