Resources and Guidelines 4
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Activity 4: Dive into the source code and create a patch.
Resources
- How to fix a Bug in Eclipse? (Eclipse article) [1]
- Eclipse FAQ [2]
- Eclipse : building commercial-quality plug-ins by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel (college library eBook)
- Eclipse Plugin Development [3]
Guidelines
- READ the resources.
- Install the Plugin Development Environment (PDE).
- Check out the source code (e.g. the Valgrind plugins) from the SVN repository.
- When you install Subclipe, you need to fix the problem of missing JavaHL Library.
- Inspect the source code of some Java classes that interest you.
- Change the source code (e.g. the ColorManager class in ??? plug-in) and run it.
- Create a patch if it runs correctly!