Creating a dedicated plug-in for the advanced design search patterns

To create advanced design search patterns, you must create a plug-in that contains all the required components.

Procedure

  1. Open the Plug-in Development perspective.
  2. Select File > New > Plug-in Project.

    The plug-in project wizard opens.

  3. In the Plug-in Project page, enter a Project name and click Next.
  4. In the Content page, leave the default options and click Next.
  5. In the Templates page, do not select any template.
  6. Click Finish.

    The plug-in where you can describe your advanced design search patterns is initialized in Eclipse. You can see it in the Package Explorer view of the Plug-in Development perspective.

    For more information on how to create a plug-in, see the sections Reference > Wizards and Dialogs > New Project Creation Wizards and Reference > Editors in the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) User Guide of the Eclipse documentation.

  7. In the plug-in editor that opens, click the Dependencies tab. Add the dependencies to the plug-ins that are required to implement the Java classes of the advanced search patterns: com.ibm.pdp.maf.rpp and com.ibm.pdp.maf.rpp.model.

What to do next

For each new advanced design search pattern, you must instantiate the extension point that is supplied by the com.ibm.pdp.maf.rpp plug-in.


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