Chapter 3. Hello World
Our “Hello World” plug-in will contribute a button to the toolbar. When the button is pressed, we will pop up a dialog box containing the text “Hello World.”
The developers at Eclipse.org share a consistent set of rules for design. Here's the first rule of Eclipse:
CONTRIBUTION RULE. Everything is a contribution.
The whole of Eclipse—the Java development tools, the CVS repository explorer, every single tool—is contributed. That is, none of them is “built into” Eclipse. There is no monolithic tool to which a few things are added. There is a tiny little kernel to which many things are contributed, as shown in Figure 3.1.
Figure 3.1. Some ...
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