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Published in Aug 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783980697

Pages 458 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Alex Blewitt

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Creating Your First Plug-in

2. Creating Views with SWT

3. Creating JFace Viewers

4. Interacting with the User

5. Working with Preferences

6. Working with Resources

7. Creating Eclipse 4 Applications

8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x

9. Styling Eclipse 4 Applications

10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products

11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins

12. Automated Builds with Tycho

13. Contributing to Eclipse

Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications

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Index

Time for action – writing the markup parser

First, the format of the markup language needs to be explained. The first line will be a title, and then subsequent paragraphs are blank-line separated. This can be translated into an HTML file as follows.

Minimark source	Translated HTML
This is the title A paragraph with some text Another paragraph	<html><head><title>This is the title</title></head><body><h1>This is the title</h1> <p> A paragraph with some text </p> <p> Another paragraph </p></body></html>

Minimark source

Translated HTML

This is the title

A paragraph with some text

Another paragraph

<html><head><title>This is the title</title></head><body><h1>This is the title</h1>

<p>
A paragraph with some text
</p>

<p>
Another paragraph
</p></body></html>

Create a class called MinimarkTranslator in the com.packtpub.e4.minimark.ui package as follows:

public class MinimarkTranslator {
  public static void convert(Reader reader, Writer writer)
   throws IOException {
    BufferedReader lines = new BufferedReader(reader);
    String line;
    String title = String.valueOf(lines.readLine());
    writer.write("<html><head><title>");
    writer...

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Authors (1)

Alex Blewitt

contacted on 30 aug 16 _____________ Dr Alex Blewitt has over 20 years of experience in Objective-C and has been using Apple frameworks since NeXTstep 3.0. He upgraded his NeXTstation for a TiBook when Apple released Mac OS X in 2001 and has been developing on it ever since. Alex currently works for an investment bank in London, writes for the on-line technology news site InfoQ and has published two other books for Packt publishing. He also has a number of apps on the Apple AppStore through Bandlem Limited. When he's not working on technology, and if the weather is nice, he likes to go flying from the nearby Cranfield airport. Alex writes regularly at his blog, http://alblue.bandlem.com, as well tweeting regularly from Twitter as @alblue. Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the ongoing love and support of my wife Amy, who has helped me through both the highs and lows of life. She gave me the freedom to work during the many late nights and weekends that it takes to produce a book and its associated code repository. She truly is the Lem of my life. I'd also like to thank my parents, Ann and Derek, for their encouragement and support during my formative years. It was this work ethic that allowed me to start my technology career as a teenager and to incorporate my first company before I was 25. I'd also like to congratulate them on their 50th wedding anniversary in 2015, and I look forward to reaching that goal with Amy. Thanks are due especially to the reviewer of this version of the book: Antonio Bello, as well as the previous version of this book: Nate Cook, James Robert and Arvid Gerstmann, who provided excellent feedback on the contents of this book during development and caught many errors in both the text and code. Any remaining errors are my own. I'd also like to thank my children Sam and Holly for inspiring me and hope that they too can achieve anything that they set their minds to. Finally, I'd like to thank Ben Moseley and Eren Kotan, both of whom introduced me to NeXT in the first place and set my career going on a twenty year journey to this book.

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