<p>I'm interested in writing eclipse plugins where do I start? </p>

<p>What resources have helped you?</p>

<p>I'm looking for:<br>
  1. Tutorials<br>
  2. Sites devoted to plugin development<br>
  3. Books  </p>

[{'answer_id': 48429, 'author': 'kjv', 'author_id': 1360, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1360', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can find a good step by step detailed tutorial here:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/</a></p>\n\n<p>Other tutorials:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-snippet/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16RichEclipse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-snippet/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16RichEclipse</a></p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePlugIn/article.html</a></p>\n\n<p>A decent book, that I\'ve used is "<a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321228472" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins</a>".</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48433, 'author': 'kjv', 'author_id': 1360, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1360', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Here\'s all the books available for developing Eclipse Plugins:\n<a href="http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/books-index-req-view_subcat-sid-4.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/books-index-req-view_subcat-sid-4.html</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 48434, 'author': 'mmattax', 'author_id': 1638, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1638', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I have done quite a bit with an RCP application that made use of multiple plug-ins. This book helped me tremendously in all fronts: RCP framework and plug-in development:\n<a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321334612" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Rich-Client-Platform-Applications/dp/0321334612</a></p>\n\n<p>The book walks you through the development of a IM chat client using RCP and plug-in development.</p>\n\n<p>Also the eclipse site and IBM have some pretty good tutorials, here is one: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecplug/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecplug/</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 69821, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>As Eclipse RCP is also based on plug-ins this might also help: <a href="http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Eclipse RCP Introduction">Eclipse RCP Introduction</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 116904, 'author': 'Matt', 'author_id': 20630, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/20630', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The RCP book mentioned above is great\nAlso there are some older online articles on the eclipse site starting with <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html</a>. Unfortunately they are a bit out of date.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 8054370, 'author': 'jdchourio', 'author_id': 857816, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/857816', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Eclipse\'s own Help contains a Platform Plug-in Developer Guide. It is a suggested reading in IBM\'s site.</p>\n\n<p>I\'m trying to build a plugin myself. After reading a little bit of "Eclipse Plug-ins" book I missed a more tutorial style writing. Vogella tutorial is quite good. After doing it, I started reading some Eclipse code (as described by Vogella in his tutorial). And now I found the Eclipse\'s Help resource.</p>\n'}]
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