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Summary: Create pluglets

You can use pluglets to list the contents of a selected class in a model or calculate the fan-in metric for a class.
You can use pluglets to handle routine tasks, and the pluglet functionality offers you an easy way to explore and learn the API offered by the workbench platform and other product extensions. The pluglet can be tested in the same instance of the workbench just like any other Java application. Pluglet authors can use the Java development environment, and they have access to the application programming interfaces (APIs) of the workbench plug-ins to extend and implement the existing pluglets. From a workbench perspective your can write the statement Platform.getWorkbench() and gain complete access to the entire workbench and its parts. From a modeling perspective, the UMLModeler class allows you access to a model and its contents.

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