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This page is a hub to collect information about [[Eclipse Project]] APIs.  

===API Guidelines ===

* [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-API-Use/index.html 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. 
* [[Javadoc]] How to write Javadoc
* [[Provisional API Guidelines]]
* [[Eclipse/API Central/API Removal Process|API Removal Process]]
* [[Eclipse/API Central/Deprecation Policy|Deprecation Policy]]
* [[Export-Package | Policy on use of Export-Package]]
* [[OSGi API Guidelines]]
* [[API Javadoc tags]]
* [[Version Numbering]] Guidelines on how to assign and evolve plug-in version numbers
* [[Development Conventions and Guidelines]], including
** [[Naming_Conventions]]
* [[SPI description]]
* [[Architecture Council/Metadata File Naming Recommendations|Metadata File Naming Recommendations]]

=== Useful links ===

* [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/sessions818e.html?id=1427 API Design and Evolution] - EclipseCon 2010 presentation - full [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1975868/EclipseCon2010-API-Design-and-Evolution.zip downloadable material as ZIP (3.5MB)]
* [http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design Effective API Design]: 1 hr video by Joshua Bloch
* [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/sessions229f.html?id=1343 Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?] - EclipseCon 2010 presentation on API Tooling by Olivier Thomann
* [[PDE UI Incubator ApiTools Compare]]
* [http://eclipse.org/eclipse/presentation/eclipsecon/API-Tutorial-EclipseCon-2007.pdf Eclipse APIs and Java 5] EclipseCon 2007 presentation
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/apis/Eclipse-APIs-Lines-in-the-Sand.pdf Eclipse APIs: Line in the Sand (pdf)] The philosophy, psychology, and sociology of APIs, EclipseCON 2004 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/apis/API-First.pdf API First (pdf)] Best practices for API development based, EclipseCON 2005 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
* [[API Tutorial 2006]] at EclipseCon
* [http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/eclipse-quality.php Eclipse Development Process and Quality APIs]
* [https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/kinds_of_compatibility Article on compatibility by Joseph Darcy from the Sun/Oracle JDK team]

=== Historical information ===

* [[post_freeze_changes_3.2 | Late-breaking 3.2 API changes]]

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