Eclipse TEA Revealed: Building Plug-ins and Creating Extensions for Eclipse

Discover the open source Eclipse Tasking Engine Advanced (TEA) project in this compact to-the-point book. It covers how to automate tasks using TEA and focuses on simplifying and aiding the creation of extensions for the Eclipse IDE in a way which makes them accessible both from the IDE’s UI and in a headless fashion from the command line.

Additionally, Eclipse TEA Revealed explores the library of pre-built components included with TEA, mostly in the area of rich client platform (RCP)-based Java application development, for building projects, updating sites, dealing with target platforms, and more. After reading and using this book, you’ll be up to speed on the fundamentals of Eclipse TEA and ready to use it for more productive Java-based application builds and developments.

What You Will Learn

• View TEA’s internal architecture
• Work with TEA’s APIs
• Write TEA components
• Use the pre-built TEA components
• Set up headless environments using TEA

Who This Book Is For

Readers should be Java developers interested in extending the Eclipse IDE and/or setting up headless environments based on Eclipse.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. About Tea
Chapter 2. Getting Started
Chapter 3. Tea Architecture
Chapter 4. Logging
Chapter 5. Tasks
Chapter 6. Taskchains
Chapter 7. Configuration
Chapter 8. Progress Reporting
Chapter 9. Statistics
Chapter 10. Tasking Live View
Chapter 11. E4 Events
Chapter 12. Tea Build Library
Chapter 13. Ease Integration
Chapter 14. Lcdsl Integration
Chapter 15. Further Use Cases