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Markus DuftEclipse TEA Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4093-9_1

1. About TEA

Markus Duft1 
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Peggau, Steiermark, Austria
 
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Welcome! Take a seat. Relax. Grab some coffee. (You all drink coffee, right?) I am not going to discuss too much rocket science. If you read this book’s back cover, you already know that this book is about extending the Eclipse IDE1 with additional functionality through Eclipse TEA.2 As you make your way through the book, you will see that this can be a surprisingly simple task.

In this chapter, I will introduce Eclipse TEA and shed some light on its history.

The Background of TEA

Before I delve into ...

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