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DSDP/TML/Creating TmL Plugins

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Revision as of 14:52, 8 April 2008 by Wfr004.motorola.com (Talk | contribs) (Goal)

Creating TmL plugins using log,i18n and exceptions

Purpose

This guide shows how to create TmL plugins. The target users of this tutorial are any kind of plugin inside TmL context. It is mandatory use this template to contribute plugins to TmL project. But , if you just need to use the framework feel free to choose your best plugin template. We suggest use this template because some features as internationalization, log messages and exception mechanism were already implemented in common classes of TmL project.

Initial requirements

Follow the steps below to prepare your environment before you be able to create TmL plugins.If you already had an Eclipse Europa installed in your machine go to step 2.

  1. Download and install the most recent Eclipse Europa version.[1]
  2. Connect to Eclipse CVS Repository and get the project set for Common utilities (see instructions .[2] here).

After that, your workspace should has a new project named org.eclipse.tml.common.utilities

Set up environment

Creating plugins

Defining Icons

Inserting I18N support

Inserting LOG support

Inserting Exception support

Conclusion

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