Build a cheat sheet in eclipse

Eclipse provides a built-in mechanism for displaying the mini guide, known as a memo (cheat sheet). A cheat sheet can quickly and effectively guide you through the process of including multiple steps in Eclipse, which is displayed at the corners of the workbench, and you can view them easily and quickly.

This tutorial demonstrates how to construct a cheat sheet for eclipse. Once constructed, they can also be run on the BEA Workshop Studio, Bea Workshop for WebLogic, and any other eclipse system, perhaps complementing your existing tools and plug-ins. The sample download provides 3 prepared cheat sheets, one of which is used to illustrate how to build your own cheat sheet.

Brief introduction

Eclipse provides local support for the small, delicate feature of memo sheets, which provide quick guidance for standard and detailed tasks. To display available cheat sheets in the eclipse environment, you can click Help > Cheat Sheets or Windows > show View > The other > Cheat Sheets > Cheat Sheets & Gt Ok.

A memo appears in the form of a view on the right side of the workbench, making it easy for users to read and execute the instructions in the cheat sheet at the same time. An example is given below:

Figure 1. Cheat Sheet view

A cheat sheet is used to guide you through a process, so after you complete one of the steps in the cheat sheet, you can click the icon at the bottom of the step and the next step appears automatically. Click the icon to open the help page related to the current step in the cheat sheet.

You can use the cheat sheets provided by others, or you can create your own. A cheat sheet is an ideal way to let everyone on your team know how to do standard but not very frequent operations, such as accessing internal (in-house) APIs or connecting to legacy applications. A series of steps you write down on a note can also be a candidate for a cheat sheet. A cheat sheet is saved in a jar file, and you can easily share them with others.

As you would expect, Eclipse also provides a few simple tools for assembling the cheat sheet into plug-ins and putting the resulting jar files into the current installation. In short, you can create many cheat sheets in a plug-in project (each memo is in their own XML file), export them as a jar file, and put them in the local Eclipse/plug-ins folder.

You can create a cheat sheet, such as Bea Workshop for WebLogic 9.2, in any instance of Eclipse that supports plug-in development functionality.

Write your own cheat sheet

This tutorial will guide you through the entire process of creating a cheat sheet from beginning to end in eclipse. Overall, the following steps must be performed:

• Establish a project to create a cheat sheet file.

• Create an XML file that contains the text of your cheat sheet.

• Define a cheat sheet attribute.

• Export the cheat sheet as a jar file.

• Copy the jar files to the Eclipse folder.

• Access Memo sheets.

The above steps are very simple. Please open your eclipse and let's get started.