Introduction
The main resource and starting point for developing a Eclipse plug-in is the Eclipse “Platform Plug-in Developer Guide” available in the help of the Eclipse SDK. This guide is specific to the CICS Explorer SDK and is intended to provide some simple starting points for developing Eclipse plug-ins that leverage the CICS Explorer functionality.
Assumptions
This guide assumes that you are familiar with Eclipse and plug-in development, and that the target Eclipse environment for which you are developing is the same as your development environment in which the CICS Explorer SDK is installed.
Tip:
As an alternative to manually entering the code and executing the steps described in the demonstration, you can import the final demonstration projects included with this guide.
To import a demonstration project, perform the following steps:
1. In the CICS Explorer SDK Help, view the documentation for the demonstration you want to download.
2. Click the compressed file link, and save the file on your local machine. Each compressed file contains one project that can be imported into the workspace.
3. Select File > Import from the Eclipse workbench menu.
4.
Expand the General
tab and click Existing Projects into
Workspace. Click Next.
5.
Click the Select
archive file check box and browse the location where you saved the
compressed demonstration file on your local machine.
6. Select the demonstration file you want to import and click Finish.
The project is imported into Eclipse.
You can create a new run configuration to test the
plug-in in the CICS Explorer by clicking Window
> Preferences > Target Platform, and browsing for the CICS Explorer
product that is installed on your computer. That will create a run
configuration that will run the product com.ibm.cics.explorer.product
When you run the configuration, CICS Explorer starts with the additional plug-ins included.