Chapter 1, Creating Your First Plug-in, provides an overview of how to download Eclipse, set it up for plug-in development, create a sample plug-in, launch, and debug it.

Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT, provides an overview of how to build views with SWT, along with other custom SWT components such as system trays and resource management.

Chapter 3, Creating JFace Viewers, discusses creating views with JFace using TableViewers and TreeViewers, along with integration with the properties view and user interaction.

Chapter 4, Interacting with the User, discusses using commands, handlers, and menus to interact with the user, as well as the Jobs and Progress APIs.

Chapter 5, Storing Preferences and Settings, tells how to store preference information persistently, as well as displaying it via the preferences pages.

Chapter 6, Working with Resources, teaches how to load and create Resources in the workbench, as well as how to create a builder and nature for automated processing.

Chapter 7, Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model, discusses the key differences between the Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x models, as well as how to migrate existing content to the new model.

Chapter 8, Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products, tells how to take the plug-ins created so far in this book, aggregate them into features, publish to update sites, and how applications and products are used to create standalone entities.

Chapter 9, Automated Testing of Plug-ins, teaches how to write automated tests that exercise Eclipse plug-ins, including both UI and non-UI components.

Chapter 10, Automated builds with Tycho, details how to build Eclipse plug-ins, features, update sites, applications, and products automatically with Maven Tycho.