As part of this project, existing source code has been converted to Eclipse plugins. This application is about Eclipse plug-ins, and the extension and extension point mechanism. Existing Java application source code is provided for Asteroids Game using Java Swing and AWT. This is converted to an Eclipse plug-in based application and can be run as eclipse plugin. application
Tools used: Eclipse PDE
The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides tools to create, develop, test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update sites and RCP products.
PDE also provides comprehensive OSGi tooling, which makes it an ideal environment for component programming, not just Eclipse plug-in development.
As part of this project, I have created four eclipse plugins:
AsteroidEnginePlugin : contains the Game and WordPanel project to start the Game screen and do drawing on it for spaceship,player etc and then render it.
AsteroidUtilPlugin : contains the Clock and Vector to handle clocking mechansim and positioning for various objects on game screen.
AsteroidEntityPlugin : contains the Asteroid, Bullet and Player graphics code like their draw method, collision actions etc.
I have created three extension points in AsteroidViewPlugin , AsteroidEnginePlugin.
For extension point , AsteroidViewPlugin StartGame , I have created extension GameScreen in AsteroidEnginePlugin.
For extension point, AsteroidEnginePlugin IClock and IVector, I have extensions Clock and Vector in AsteroidUtilPlugin.
Class tutorial by Dr. Yongie Zheng