When you develop a rich client application base on eclipse framework, and your application require eclipse platform feature, you would find that your application has some menu items contributed by eclipse platform. Those menu items are defined by several plug-ins' implementation of actionSet extention point. In fact …

Those days my work is focus on eclipse's update. Now I understand the general mechanism and meet some issues when using it in development work. The update mechanism includes four major types: install, enable, disable and uninstall. And all of those operations can be executed by command line, such as installing a …

I met a defect that dynamically created menu items disappear after creating a new viewPart. It caused me overtime last Friday. Today I find the root cause. The scenario is: open first document, the items are shown well open another document, the items disappear The requirement is that showing the menu items while …