12.5. Summary

Almost any significant plug-in will contain global options controlling its execution and interaction with the user. This chapter explored the Eclipse preference page API and discussed the choices open to the developer for creating both simple and complex preference pages. It also demonstrated how to persist preference settings across workspace sessions.

References

Chapter source (www.qualityeclipse.com/projects/source-ch-12.zip).

Creasey, Tod, "Preferences in the Eclipse Workbench UI," August 15, 2002 (www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Preferences/preferences.htm).

Cooper, Ryan, "Simplifying Preference Pages with Field Editors," August 21, 2002 (www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Field-Editors/field_editors.html).