A specific creation wizard is available to create this
type of plug-in.
Procedure
- To open the creation wizard, select .
- The following two pages are standard pages used for the
creation of Eclipse projects.
Note: On the Content page,
you can clear the selected check boxes in the Options pane.
It is not necessary to generate an activator or to indicate that the
plug-in will make contributions to the UI.
- On the Templates page, select Create
a plug-in using one of the templates and RPP
COBOL Micropattern wizard. Click Next.
- On the COBOL micropattern page, enter
the name of the Java™ class in
which you will describe your micropattern. Select the entity type
in which you will be able to use the micropattern. You can create
a:
- simple micropattern, which generates code only where it is declared,
between its start and end tags..
- global micropattern, which generates code in various parts of
the code. Select the Global micropattern box
in this case.
Results
The plug-in in which you can develop your micropattern has
been created in Eclipse. You can see it in the
Project Explorer view
of the
Resource perspective.
The
plugin.xml file
contains the micropattern extension point.
Figure 1. Micropattern
extension point<extension
point="com.ibm.pdp.framework.microPattern">
<handler
refPatternId="com.ibm.pdp.pacbase.batch"
class="com.micropattern.sample.UserMicroPattern">
</handler>
</extension>
To develop your micropattern, open the plug-in and the Java class generated from the name
you specified in the creation wizard.