Eclipse Plugin Development — Setup

Setting up Eclipse for eclipse plugin development

In the first of this set of blog posts I will explain how to setup your IDE for eclipse plugin development. Using Eclipse simplifies creating a new project, and once the project has been created it can be worked on in IntelliJ or any other IDE.

The instructions were created for Eclipse Neon, but should apply for later versions also.

Open Help > Install New Software…
Select The Eclipse Project Updates
Search PDE and tick Eclipse PDE Plug-in Developer Resources
Search RCP and tick Eclipse RCP and Eclipse RCP Plug-in Developer Resources
Click Next
Accept the terms and select to update, depending on the update state of your Eclipse installation

Finally restart Eclipse

Next: Creating your first plugin