Extension Points: When a plug-in wants to allow other plug-ins to extend or customize portions of its functionality, it will declare an extension point.
Features may contain many plugins or even other features Features: A feature is used to package a group of plug-ins together into a single installable and updatable unit.Plugins are basic units of any Eclipse-based product or any Eclipse extension Plugins: A plug-in is used to group your code into a modular, extendable and sharable unit.Learn a bunch of new terms One of the things that can help a lot is actually understanding some of the new terms you’ll run into when developing a plugin. Eclipse provides some samples for you to try, or you can watch a good tutorial here. When that’s done, you can try to build a sample plugin. If you don’t have Eclipse installed yet, just download the Eclipse Standard edition which contains all the necessary tools. There you should have all of the components under Eclipse Plugin Development Tools installed, and you should also install Eclipse RCP Plug-in Developer Resources under Eclipse RCP Target Components.
#How to install eclipse plugin development environment update
Set up your environment Supposing you already have a version of Eclipse, check to see whether you have Plugin Development Tools installed: Instead of presenting an advanced tutorial, I would like to share a compendium of useful links and tips that I found useful. When it comes to Eclipse Plugin development, the information you can find on the web is disorganized and somewhat foggy, so you’ll probably spend half of your time reading forums and blogs to solve different problems.