Level: Intermediate Prashant Deva (pdeva@placidsystems.com), Founder, Placid Systems
05 Sep 2006 This "Create a commercial-quality Eclipse IDE" series examines how to create professional, commercial-quality IDEs that plug into Eclipse. In this tutorial, learn how to create the core of the IDE. In this tutorial
This "Create a commercial-quality Eclipse IDE" series demonstrates what it takes to create integrated development environments (IDEs) as Eclipse plug-ins for any existing programming languages or your own. It walks you through the two most important parts of the IDE -- the core and the user interface (UI) -- and takes a detailed look at the challenges associated with designing and implementing them. This series uses ANTLR Studio IDE as a case study and examines its internals to help you understand what it takes to create a professional commercial-level IDE. Code samples help you follow the concepts and understand how to use them in your own IDE. Part 1 introduces the architecture of an IDE and shows how to create the IDE's core layer. Part 2 shows how to implement the UI component of your IDE. Part 3 discusses additional UI elements Eclipse provides to enhance your editor.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of parsers and lexers (what they are and they do), ANTLR, and working with the Eclipse Java™ Development Tools (JDT).
System requirements
To try the code examples in this tutorial, you need the Eclipse software development kit (SDK) running Java Virtual Machine (JVM) V1.4 or later. In addition, to generate the parser and lexer examples, you need ANTLR (see Resources).
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