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Creating plugin project programatically [message #291967]

Tue, 27 September 2005 17:39

Eclipse User

Does anyone know if there are any APIs that allow creation of a plugin
project programatically (as well as the ability to affect the contents of
the generated plugin descriptor)? In 3.1, all of the APIs that are used to
create a plugin project by the "NewPluginProjectWizard" are "internal" and
not available for use outside of the plugin they are defined in.

Re: Creating plugin project programatically [message #1066554 is a reply to message #291967]

Wed, 03 July 2013 03:15

Eclipse User

I need to create a Java Plugin Project programmatically too..
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tilak

Re: Creating plugin project programatically [message #1080837 is a reply to message #1066554]

Tue, 06 August 2013 08:36

Eclipse User

You have to first create a Java project using the following JDT API:
1. org.eclipse.jdt.core.IJavaProject;
2. org.eclipse.jdt.core.IPackageFragment;
3. org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore

Then, use the Plugin Development Environment API (org.eclipse.pde.core.project, org.eclipse.pde.core.plugin) to convert that java project into plugin project.

Package org.eclipse.pde.core.project in PDE API has interface IBundleProjectDescription,which is used to convert a java project into plguin.
A bundle project description can be created for an IProject via IBundleProjectService.getDescription(IProject), or you can explicitly create an object IProjectDescription, which has the method setNatureIds(String[] natures).

Hope this helps. Smile

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