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 standardly used to create 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.
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.