October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
8h 1m
English
In this chapter we'll see how to
Create a view using the JFace viewer framework
Configure a viewer using a label provider and a content provider
Use PDE to define a new extension
Open a Java element in a Java editor
In Chapter 13 we implemented a simple view using only SWT widgets. In this chapter we will contribute a more complex view using the JFace viewer framework. This illustrates that to contribute a view you can use a framework, but you don't have to. Frameworks have a particular scope. It's hard to program when your problem doesn't fit into a framework but you still have to use it. Eclipse works hard to offer frameworks without imposing them.
Our example JUnit plug-in allows us to see failures as markers. ...
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