如何编辑/加载Eclipse插件

Question

I'm trying to learn about debuggers in eclipse, and in this article:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Debugger/how-to.html

They give a few sample plugins at the bottom that one can install and try out (the zip file on the bottom).

I'm not so familiar with eclipse plugins, and I am unsure as to how to install/view the source code of these jar files in eclipse. I have tried importing them into PDE and that has not worked.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

1. Unpack the ZIP file.

2. Unpack each JAR file into it's own directory with: jar xf org.eclipse...jar

   One of the unpacked files will be coresrc.zip, which contains the source for the core plugin, and one file will be uisrc.zip, which contains the source for the UI plugin.

3. Unpack those ZIP files somewhere

4. Import the directories created from the ZIP files as plugin projects.

This is not elegant, but will get the source into Eclipse.

It is quite possible that you will not be able to run the plugins, as they've been developed for Eclipse 3.0, which is about 100 years old and pretty much all interfaces have changed since then.