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<p>Carbide.c++ is built on the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse</a> platform. The Eclipse components used are:</p>
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<li>Eclipse 3.6</li>
<li>A slightly modified version of CDT 7.0</li>
<li>EMF 2.5</li>
<li>GEF 3.5</li>
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<p>The APIs published by these components are available for use in your plugins.</p>
<p>Carbide.c++ itself publishes a set of APIs which are documented in this guide.</p>
<p>Carbide.c++ requires Java 5 and a Java 5 JRE is part of the Carbide.c++ installation.
Your plugins can use Java 5 features. The included version of CDT was built with Java 1.4 language compliance.</p>
<p>Developing plugins for Carbide.c++ requires knowledge of Java and Eclipse plugin development practices.
There are a number of good references in this area. Some are:</p>
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<li>The Eclipse online help, <i>Platform Plug-in Developers Guide</i></li>
<li>Eclipse.org <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/resources/index.php?type=article">articles</a></li>
<li>The book <i>Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, (2nd Edition</i> ISBN 0321305027</li>
<li>The book <i>Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition)</i> ISBN 032142672X</li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_FAQs">The Official Eclipse FAQs</a></li>
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