The Application Model Editor provides enhanced support for defining and refining Eclipse 4 model definition files (usually with an extension of .e4xmi). One particularly nifty feature is that the ...
The Eclipse 4 Application Platform uses Eclipse Contexts to manage much of the state associated with an application. The Context Spy to allow inspecting and tracing through the Eclipse Context hier...
The Eclipse 4 Application Platform now uses CSS for theming Eclipse-based applications. But debugging CSS can be painful. The Eclipse 4 team have created two tools to help: the CSS Spy and Scratc...
The Eclipse 4 Application Platform uses a whiteboard mechanism for broadcasting changes to the UI. This mechanism is called the Event Broker and is based upon on the OSGi EventAdmin. The Event Sp...