Difference between revisions of "Eclipse/API Central"

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This page is a hub to collect information about Eclipse project APIs.

How to use the Eclipse API Guidelines for using Eclipse APIs to ensure that your code will keep working as Eclipse evolves.
Evolving Java-based APIs Guidelines for how to evolve Java-based APIs while maintaining compatibility with existing client code. wiki version
Provisional API Guidelines
Policy on use of Export-Package

Eclipse APIs: Line in the Sand (pdf) The philosophy, psychology, and sociology of APIs, EclipseCON 2004 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
API First (pdf) Best practices for API development based, EclipseCON 2005 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
API Tutorial 2006 at EclipseCon

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 * [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-API%20use/eclipse-api-usage-rules.html How to use the Eclipse API] Guidelines for using Eclipse APIs to ensure that your code will keep working as Eclipse evolves.
-* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/java-api-evolution.html Evolving Java-based APIs] Guidelines for how to evolve Java-based APIs while maintaining compatibility with existing client code.
+* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/java-api-evolution.html Evolving Java-based APIs] Guidelines for how to evolve Java-based APIs while maintaining compatibility with existing client code. [[API Evolution | wiki version]]
 * [[Provisional API Guidelines]]
 * [[Export-Package | Policy on use of Export-Package]]