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Markus DuftEclipse TEA Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4093-9_11

11. E4 Events

Markus Duft1 
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Peggau, Steiermark, Austria
 

TEA provides a bridge from its own TaskingLifeCycleListener mechanism to the E41 event bus mechanism. This allows for some advanced integration in a more Eclipse-ish fashion. Actually, the Tasking Live View is implemented based on this mechanism. It is a plain E4 view part that requests TEA events from the Eclipse event bus.

The Event Bridge

The bridge is implemented in org.eclipse.tea.core.ui.internal.listeners.EventBrokerBridge. It is quite straightforward since it broadcasts an event for every TaskingLifeCycleListener method possible to the Eclipse IEventBroker. TEA uses the org/eclipse/tea/* ...

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