18.1. Develop plugins with Eclipse

In theory, plugins can be developed with any development environment. Preparations are similar with every tool. The instructions hereafter consider the example of Eclipse.

Upon download and installation of Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org), a new project is created. Plugins can only be developed, provided the library ecube_class.jar appears in the class path of compiler of this project. This can be done with a right-click on project > properties. The next dialog shows how to select the Java-Build-Path on the left and Libraries on the right. Afterwards, click the button Add External JARs... to select a .jar-file in the Cubetto Toolset library file. This is illustrated in the figure below.

How to select the class path

Figure 18.1. How to select the class path