Eclipse

 Eclipse PDE :
This Blog is a collective information for quickly Ramp up on some of basic eclipse development

Good Tutorial for Beginners to learn Plug-in development
Your First Eclipse Plug-in
Bellow Links will be supportive while you go through Above tutorial
XML Schema - CDATA
Highlights about some of the concepts used
  • Plug-in Extensions and Extension Points
    Extensions: Plug-in interacts with each other through extension points.
  • Plug-in ManiFest File Structure and Syntax
    Structure:

    1. Plugin
    2. Requirement : (Dependencies) Plug-ins on which MyPlugin will depend
    3. Extensions : Lists the eclipse extension Extension points from which MyPlugin will extend. Extension points has its own elements and properties to be set

      For example i have shown the structure of elements of org.eclipse.ui.actionSets
      Here the underlined text is the name of each and every element of ActionSets Extension Point