Installing feature extensions for Eclipse

Every part of Eclipse is a plug-in. So plug-ins are important for eclipse, and can be implemented in a variety of functions, and if the features you want to use are not found in the current eclipse, consider searching the web for relevant plugins. Many plugins are also available on the Eclipse's official website.

In Eclipse's official website, click Projects, under the Search box, click "List of Projects" to see a very large list. This is all the plugins available in Eclipse. You can search for the desired keyword in the search box according to your needs .

Example: Enter window in the Search box, click the Search button, locate Windowbuilder, and select Download. In the open page, you will be provided with some important information that the plugin installs into eclipse. A number of links are available on the page. Find link under Update site under Interation version. Copy this link back to the Eclipse software

Help->install New software...->work with-> Paste the link you just copied into the text box, enter

This time the system will automatically network to determine the plug-ins that need to be installed, you can see windowbuilder this plugin relies on a lot of sub-plugins.

Tick All Click Next

window displays confirmation information

Continue clicking Next after confirming the error

Click to accept the terms

Click Finish

The system is installing the specified plugin ...

After the plug-in installation is complete, eclipse will pop up a reminder that you need to restart Eclipse to complete the plugin installation

Click OK

Eclipse software automatically restarts ...

New->other in the project

You can see the Windowbuilder option

The form builder plug-in can run successfully

In addition to installing search and install plugins on the website, there is a more convenient way

help->install New Software ...

Select all plugins that apply to the current Eclipse version in the drop-down menu

System Automatic Networking ...

Wait......

Load out all available plugins

List loading complete

Plug-ins (plug-in, also known as AddIn, add-in, addon or add-on, also translated) is a kind of compliance with a certain standardApplication interfacethe program written out. It can only run under the system platform specified by the program (which may support multiple platforms at the same time), but not independently from the specified platform. Because the plug-in needs to invoke the original pure system provided by the library or data. ManySoftwareThere are plugins, plugins have countless kinds. For example, in IE, after installing the relevant plug-in, the WEBBrowserability to call directlyPlug-in programsthat is used to process a specific type of file. Plug-in positioning is the development of the original pure system platform,Application softwareThe platform does not have the functionality of the program.

Application programming Interface , short API(Application Programming Interface), is the agreement of different components of software system.

Installing feature extensions for Eclipse