Contributed Tools
Extending Plug-in Capabilities
The ProvideX plug-in has been designed to allow additional functionality to be added
without requiring a large effort. The current version of the plug-in provides two methods to
accomplish this.
- Enhance Existing Events
- Add new logic around the existing events (or logic) in the plug-in. This provides
a mechanism for integrating with exiting tools and methodolgies for managing source code
and documenting the history of an application.
- External Tools
- Add links to connect to external tools that are not directly associated with any
of the events in the current ProvideX plug-in.
Using a Contributed Tool
This section will discuss the steps required to integrate an external tool into the
Eclipse framework through the ProvideX Plug-in.
Built-in Contributed Tools
- PvxDocs
- This contributed tool adds the capability to generate class documentation from the
comments in the source code for a project.
- Convert XMI to ProvideX
- This contributed tool adds the ability to take an XMI definition and create
ProvideX class definitions from it.
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- XML Conversion
- This contributed tool will convert ProvideX keyed files to XML or XML files to
ProvideX keyed files. It can also be enabled as an observer to the build process.