Tip of the Day/Extending/JavaTipProvider

Java Tip Provider

A Java Tip provider will provide all information about the provider and Tips from normal java classes. Tip objects may be declared statically or be created dynamically.

Examples

This provider is the "Tips about Tips" provider.

• Link to the project folder
  • The Tip Provider

Various incarnations of tips

• An exampe of a Java Tip with embedded HTML
• Example of a Tip embedding a tweet (ugly, but does not require a lot of code)
  • Link to that tweet
• Example of a Tip with Actions
• An implementation of an SWT tip
• Declaration of a Wiki tip
  • the page that contains that tip
  • ?action=render only shows the html

A provider that fetches new tips whenever it runs out of tips.

• a provider that never runs out of tips