Out of the Box

• The Plug-In samples include a basic XML editor:

• To build:

  1. File/New/Project

  2. Plug-in Development/Plug-in Project.

  3. XEdit for Name

  4. Default values for Plug-in Project Structure.

  5. Create a plug-in project using a code generation wizard and the Plug-in with an editor options.

  6. Next and then the Finish option on the next screen Simple Plug-in Content;

  7. Rebuild All

• Installing:

  1. Use a plug-in wizard to export it as a tar.gz file

  2. Untar the file (in the eclipse directory) and copy the result to the plugins directory

  3. Restart Eclipse

• After all that, it's a plain text editor with syntax coloring