[pde-dev] Extending the PDE

[Fabio Mancinelli <fm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I would like to write an extension to the PDE, and in order to do so  
I need to access to the information about the current state of the  
Workspace.
In particular I would like to retrieve the following information:

1) All the meta-data defined by plugins in the target platform, i.e.  
the information contained in their manifests and especially  
dependencies.
2) All the meta-data defined by plugins provided by the open projects  
in the workspace. Same kind of information as the one in 1)

I would like to use that information for doing some analysis and  
present it in a View, as it is done by the functionalities present in  
the "Dependency Analysis" section when you open the Dependencies tag  
of the plugin.xml editor.

Could anyone give me some hints on where to look in the documentation/ 
source code/etc. for starting to build my extension?

Thank you for your help.
Fabio