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the foundation of the platform
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Documents
Articles
September 2004 -
Branding your application by Andrew Eidsness and Pascal Rapicault
(work in progress)
What is a plug-in? by Debbie Wilson and Jeff McAffer
January 2003 -
Builders and Natures
by John Arthorne
August 2002 -
Responding to resource changes in the Eclipse workspace
by John Arthorne
Documents/Proposals
Coding Conventions - Eclipse
Coding Conventions - Platform/Core Team
Code Formatting - Platform/Core Team Code Format Template
Eclipse Remote Development Guidelines
(draft) [April 2002]
The OSGi-based runtime
Core Overview
Plug-in Versioning
Eclipse Update Site
User Settings
Session Test Framework
Lifting restrictions on IPath characters (the colon/slash problem)
[October 2004]
Markup to express bundle dynamic capabilities
[December 2004]
Issues with large-scale development
[December 2004]
Message Bundles
[February 2005]
Running Eclipse from JARs
[February 2005]
Gathering performance statistics
[March 2005]
Active Work
Here is a list of activities that we are currently working on, along with links to their planning pages.
Content Types
File Attributes
File Encoding
History store
modifications
User Settings/Preferences
(Dynamic Team page
,
Core page
)
Issues with large-scale development
Markup to express bundle dynamic capabilities
Message bundles
Running Eclipse from JARs
Gathering performance statistics
Archives
RFCs
(mostly from 2.0)
Inflexible Project Structure -
Problem Definition
,
Possible Solutions
, and the
Proposed Solution
(obsolete)
Using the Class Loader Properties File
(obsolete)
Using Package Prefixes in the plugin.xml