Eclipse plug-in types for Lotus Notes and Domino

The following is tip #7 from "Developing Eclipse plug-ins for Lotus Notes and Domino -- 7 tips in 7 minutes," excerpted from Chapter 3 of the book Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins, published by Addison-Wesley Publishing.

Commercial plug-ins are built on one or more base plug-ins that are shipped as part of Eclipse. They are broken down into several groups, further separated into UI and Core, as follows. UI plug-ins contain aspects of a user interface or rely on other plug-ins that do, while you can use Core plug-ins in a headless environment (an environment without a user interface).

• Core - A general low-level group of non-UI plug-ins comprising basic services such as extension processing, resource tracking, and so on.
• SWT - The Standard Widget Toolkit, a general library of UI widgets tightly integrated with the underlying operating system (OS), but with an OS-independent API.
• JFace - A general library of additional UI functionality built on top of SWT.
• Workbench core - Plug-ins providing non-UI behavior specific to the Eclipse IDE itself, such as projects, project natures, and builders.
• Workbench UI - Plug-ins providing UI behavior specific to the Eclipse IDE itself, such as editors, views, perspectives, actions, and preferences.
• Team - A group of plug-ins providing services for integrating different types of source code control management systems (e.g., CVS) into the Eclipse IDE.
• Help - Plug-ins that provide documentation for the Eclipse IDE as part of the Eclipse IDE.
• JDT core - Non-UI-based Java Development Tooling (JDT) plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE.
• JDT UI - JDT UI plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE.

Developing Eclipse plug-ins for Lotus Notes and Domino

 Home: Introduction
 Tip 1: The Eclipse plug-in structure for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 2: The Eclipse plug-in directory for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 3: The Eclipse plug-in manifest for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 4: The Eclipse plug-in class for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 5: The Eclipse plug-in model for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 6: Eclipse logging for Lotus Notes and Domino
 Tip 7: Eclipse plug-in types for Lotus Notes and Domino