Developer Documentation

FAQS (predictive more than responsive)

Environment / New Developers

For Starters

• Dev Doc General Overview: General Overview
• Dev Doc Checkout Code: How to checkout the code and setup the project
• Dev Doc Coding Standards: Coding Standards
• Dev Doc Plugin XML: How does Eclipse know what our plugin can do?

Testing-related stuff; read once before starting

• Dev Doc Commands: Command Structure
• Command Line PDEJUnit: How to run JUnit plug-in tests from the command line
• Dev Doc Cruise Control?: Overview of our CruiseControl setup.
• Dev Doc Build Scripts?: Overview of our ant scripts that are used by Cruise Control?.
• Dev Doc Publish New Version: Overview of how to publish a new version of jUCMNav.

EMF and Low level

• Dev Doc Generate EMFModel: How to generate a modified EMF model
• Dev Doc Model Utilities: What utilities are in place to help with model manipulations?
• Dev Doc Model Creation Factory: How do we get instances of new model elements?
• Dev Doc EMFNotifications: How do EMF notifications work?
• URNMeta Model: jUCMNav's metamodel

GEF

Starting Point

• Dev Doc Multi Page Editor: How does the multipage editor work?
• Dev Doc UCMEditor: How does one editor work?
• Dev Doc Edit Part Creation: How are the edit parts created?
• Dev Doc Edit Policies: What are edit policies and how do they work?
• Dev Doc Figures: How do figures work?
• Dev Doc Palette: How does the palette work?
• Multi-level contextual menus in Eclipse/GEF

Extra fluff; pretty mandatory stuff for the most part.

• Dev Doc Icons: How can I get access to icons?
• Dev Doc Command Generation: How are commands generated?
• Dev Doc Deletion: How does deletion work?
• Dev Doc Properties: How do the properties work?
• Dev Doc File Management: How are files saved?
• Dev Doc Command Stack: How does the command stack work?
• Dev Doc Outline: How does the outline work?
• Dev Doc Context Menu: How does the contextual menu work?
• Dev Doc Connection Router: How does the connection router work?
• Dev Doc Wizards: How do wizards work?
• Dev Doc Connection On Bottom: How did you put some things (like components or paths) behind path nodes?
• Dev Doc Stub Dialog: How does the stub dialog work?
• Dev Doc I18n: How does the internationalization work?
  • Internationalization And Localization in Java and Eclipse
• Dev Doc Actions: How do actions work?

JUCMNav Specific

General

• Dev Doc Deployment: How is jUCMNav packaged and deployed?
• Dev Doc Query Infrastructure: How does the query infrastructure work?
• Dev Doc Online Help; How to update the online help and embed it in jUCMNav?

Algorithms / special cases

• Dev Doc Special Case Connects: Special casing for Connects
• Dev Doc Special Case Timeout Paths: Timeout Paths
• Dev Doc Algo Deletion: Deletion algorithms
• Dev Doc Algo Auto Layout?: Auto Layout algorithm