About the PDE UI Component
The PDE UI component provides a comprehensive set of tools to create, develop, test, debug and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products.
PDE UI also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development.
Some of the PDE UI tools include:
- Form-Based Manifest Editors - multi-page editors that centrally manage all manifest files of a plug-in or feature.
- RCP Tools - wizards and a form-based editor that allow you to define, brand, test and export products to multiple platforms.
- New Project Creation Wizards - create a new plug-in, fragment, feature, feature patch and update sites.
- Import Wizards - import plug-ins and features from the file system.
- Export Wizards - wizards that build, package and export plug-ins, fragments and products with a single click.
- Launchers - test and debug Eclipse applications and OSGi bundles.
- Views - PDE provides views that help plug-in developers inspect different aspects of their development environment.
- Miscellaneous Tools - wizards to externalize and clean up manifest files.
- Conversion Tools - wizard to convert a plain Java project or plain JARs into a plug-in project.
- Integration with JDT - plug-in manifest files participate in Java search and refactoring.
