JDT Resources

The Scala IDE for Eclipse extends Eclipse’s Java tooling in various Scala-specific ways, so an understanding of the structure of the JDT is an important part of getting to grips with the structure of the Scala tooling.

Editors/documents/partitioning

Building an Eclipse Text Editor with JFace Text - An excellent introduction to document partitioning, content types, content assist and highlighting.

General JDT documentation

• A useful overview of JDT fundamentals.
• Fantastic API and Services presentation - Eclipsecon 2005.
• Eclipse JDT plug-in developer guide.

JDT Indexer

• Mailing list discussion “Incremental Parsing in JDT”.
• Mailing list discussion “Index contents/format”.

AspectJ Resources

The Scala IDE for Eclipse uses AspectJ, an aspect-oriented programming extension of Java, to modify the behavior of the JDT. The following are useful references

• The AspectJ Programming Guide
• The AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT)

PDE Resources

The PDE (Plug-in Development Environment) is a set of eclipse plug-ins for developing eclipse plug-ins. There is some helpful introductory information here.

Miscellaneous

• What does $NON-NLS-1$ mean?
• Responding to resource changes in the Eclipse workspace (also this SO answer may be relevant)
• Eclipse plugins vs features vs dropins
• The Eclipse Reconciler
• Tycho tutorials