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 RPPz
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
Package Explorer view
of the
Plug-in development 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.