This circle will take you through the entire contribution process as quickly as possible. We will skip many details in the name of brevity, but fortunately we have three more circles in which to make up for our haste. Our goal is to get you over the inertia of not having made a contribution. Once you've contributed to Eclipse, you'll be ready to learn to contribute well.

Our example will contribute a button to the toolbar. When we press the button, a dialog will appear announcing, “Hello World.” First, though, we need to set Eclipse up for plug-in development.