JDT Resources

The Scala IDE for Eclipse extends Eclipse's Java tooling in various Scala-specific ways, so an understanding of the structure of the JDT is an important part of getting to grips with the structure of the Scala tooling.

Editors/documents/partitioning

• Building an Eclipse Text Editor with JFace Text - An excellent introduction to document partitioning, content types, content assist and highlighting.

General JDT documentation

• A useful overview of JDT fundamentals can be found here
• Fantastic API and Services presentation - Eclipsecon 2005
• Eclipse JDT plugin developer guide

JDT Indexer

• Mailing list discussion 'Incremental Parsing in JDT'
• Mailing list discussion 'Index contents/format'

AspectJ Resources

The Scala IDE for Eclipse uses AspectJ, an aspect-oriented programming extension of Java, to modify the behaviour of the JDT. The following are useful references

• The AspectJ Programming Guide
• The AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT)

PDE Resources

The PDE (Plugin Development Environment) is a set of eclipse plugins for developing eclipse plugins. There is some helpful introductory information here.