Envisage Core Documentation

• Front Matter
• Introduction
  • Getting Started
• Core
• Extension Points
  • Declaring an Extension Point
  • Making contributions to an Extension Point
  • Retrieving the contributions to an Extension Point
• Services
• Service Registry
  • Registering a service
  • Looking up a service
  • Looking up a list of services
  • Using queries
  • Using minimize and maximize
  • Unregistering a service
  • Getting any additional service properties
  • Service Factories
• Plugins
  • Creating a Plugin
  • Plugin Lifecycle
• How To Create a Plugin for an Envisage Application
  • What Does Your Plugin Do?
  • What Does Your Plugin Offer to Other Plugins?
  • What Does Your Plugin Add to Other Plugins?
  • What Does Your Plugin Need from Other Plugins?
  • Complete Example
• The “Message of the Day” (MOTD) Example
  • Plain Ol’ MOTD
  • Not So Plain Ol’ MOTD
• Workbench
  • Preferences with Envisage
• GUIApplication
  • gui
  • splash_screen
  • application_initialized
• Glossary

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