Two giter8 templates to create Scala IDE plugin projects

By Luc Bourlier on Jul 26 2012

The Scala IDE ecosystem which was just announced will be a great place for finding plugins to boost your productivity. The ecosystem will host not only plugins targeting end-users, but also tools for aiding developers creating and debugging their plugins.

To bootstrap the process of creating a Scala IDE plugin, we provide two giter8 templates to generate complete maven projects, containing plugin skeletons, features and update site:

To use them, after having install giter8, invoke it and provide the requested information:

$ g8 scala-ide/scala-ide-plugin.g8
name [Scala IDE Sample plugin]: My Plugin
provider [org.example]: my.domain
pluginName [org.example.plugin]: my.domain.plugin
className [SampleAction]: MyAction
providerName [Scala IDE]: Me

Applied scala-ide/scala-ide-plugin.g8 in my-plugin

$

The generated README contains some details about the projects. The result should build successfully. Developers can then concentrate on integrating their tools with Scala IDE.


The Scala IDE ecosystem which was just announced will be a great place for finding plugins to boost your productivity. The ecosystem will host not only plugins targeting end-users, but also tools for aiding developers creating and debugging their plugins.

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