Development of Eclipse plug-ins and applications, covers Eclipse RCP, Eclipse IDE plug-in development, OSGi, EMF and more.
New book: Eclipse Rich Client Platform (4th Edition)
Fully updated for Eclipse 2025-12. Covers SWT, JFace, OSGi, Maven/Tycho builds, and migrating legacy Eclipse 3.x applications.
Available as paperback and Kindle e-book.
Extending the Eclipse IDE
- Extending the Eclipse IDE - Plug-in development
- Eclipse IDE platform development
- Adding menus, toolbar and popup menus to the Eclipse IDE
- Eclipse Commands Advanced
- Define key bindings for Eclipse Commands
- Developing a custom Eclipse text editor
- Eclipse Project Natures
- Eclipse Resource API
- Defining custom launcher for the Eclipse IDE
- Implementing Debug behavior in the Eclipse IDE
- Using the Eclipse installer Oomph to provide a customized IDE