Some days ago I posted the following on the eclipse.platform newsgroup.
Since I didn´ t get any replies maybe it was the wrong group. I´d be
glad if someone could help me. Here´ s the original post:
To learn more about eclipse (3.3) plugins I created several plugins from
the shipped templates, like the "Hello World" plugin. Now clicking on
any of the two hyperlinks "Show extension point description" and "Open
extension point schema" [edited: in the plugin.xml viewer] I get
messages that no description/no schema could be found, for example for
the "org.eclipse.ui.menus" extension point. Is it just that there is no
description (I´m sure there might be a schema at least..), or do I need
to "attach" the descriptions/schemas somehow (similar to attaching a
java source to a bunch of class files)?
Is there a list of commonly used "to-get-started-with" extension points
provided by the platform, or should I stick to the plugin-templates and
learn by inferring from these?