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I want to develop an eclipse plugin. Which is the best way to start?

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This tutorial is a good place to start. Then you might expand your knowledge by reading one of the more recent Eclipse RCP books, such as "Practical Eclipse RCP Projects". I personally started off with the tutorial about RCP that comes with the Eclipse SDK, so might want to check it out as well - it's basically a shorter version of the first tutorial I recommended you.

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I have found the book Eclipse Plugins to be a good starting point

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Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition) is a good book.

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Looks like the 4th edition is coming soon: amazon.com/Eclipse-Plug-ins-4th-Eric-Clayberg/dp/0321774159/…
But it looks like the 4th ed isn't due until February 25, 2012. The 3rd is available now.
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Don't forget to use the Eclipse RCP package, specifically designed to build a rich client application.

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See this Eclipse packages comparison table.

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Contributing to Eclipse should be a very good choice.

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This tutorial is also a good start: http://www.eclipsepluginsite.com/index.html

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Apart from the Eclipse PDE Documentation, I've found this pdf to be very useful in gaining better understanding regarding the plugin development.

Plugin Exercies (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/csu670/f05/project/PluginExercises.pdf)

Solving these exercises will really help.

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