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.
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.