Create your own Eclipse plug-in template

BANGALORE, INDIA: Default plug-in templates in Eclipse are useful as long as they meet users' needs. When a specified requirement is beyond the scope of a default template, it is necessary to customize a template. This article offers insight into how to customize a plug-in project template in Eclipse, elaborates on multisection implementation and control within templates, introduces UI component customization methods to improve usability, illustrates a way to add input validation function on the UI side, and explains how to organize the directory structure of plug-in project automatically.

If you have created a plug-in project in Eclipse before, you are familiar with the established plug-in project templates, which provide a convenient starting place for new projects. The existing plug-in templates can save a lot of time, but they are not omnipotent.

A challenge to using them is finding the template that satisfies the users' requirements. But templates offer only a certain number of functions, and users' requirements are diverse and almost impossible to foresee perfectly for those who created the templates. Customizing templates is a smart way to give users the plug-ins they need without writing them from scratch.

In this article, learn:

* How to customize plug-in project template in Eclipse.

* Advanced characteristics of templates, such as multisection implementation and control, UI component customization, and validation.

* Tools to organize a project directory structure automatically.

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