Core documents

Articles and Presentations

• March 2009 - EclipseCon 2009 Tutorial: A deep dive into the platform resource model by John Arthorne
• September 2004 - Branding your application by Andrew Eidsness and Pascal Rapicault
• January 2003 - Builders and Natures by John Arthorne
• August 2002 - Responding to resource changes in the Eclipse workspace by John Arthorne

General core documents

• Coding Conventions - Eclipse
• Coding Conventions - Platform/Core Team
• Code Formatting - Platform/Core Team Code Format Template
• The OSGi-based runtime
• Core Overview
• Eclipse Update Site
• Session Test Framework

Archive

Eclipse 3.2:

• Plug-in Versioning
• Flexible workspaces

Eclipse 3.1:

• User Settings/Preferences (Dynamic Team page, Core page)
• History store modifications
• File Attributes
• Issues with large-scale development
• Message bundles
• Running Eclipse from JARs
• Markup to express bundle dynamic capabilities
• Gathering performance statistics [March 2005]
• Gathering Information about your plug-in [June 2005]
• Lifting restrictions on IPath characters (the colon/slash problem) [October 2004]

Eclipse 3.0:

• Improving the Eclipse Build Story>
• Content Types
• File Encoding

Eclipse 1.0 to 2.1:

• Eclipse Remote Development Guidelines (draft) [April 2002]
• RFCs (mostly from 2.0)
• Inflexible Project Structure - Problem Definition, Possible Solutions, and the Proposed Solution
• (obsolete) Using the Class Loader Properties File
• (obsolete) Using Package Prefixes in the plugin.xml