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Eclipse/API Central
This page is a hub to collect information about Eclipse project APIs.
Useful links:
- How to use the Eclipse API Guidelines for using Eclipse APIs to ensure that your code will keep working as Eclipse evolves.
- Evolving Java-based APIs Guidelines for how to evolve Java-based APIs while maintaining compatibility with existing client code.
- Eclipse APIs: Line in the Sand (pdf) The philosophy, psychology, and sociology of APIs, EclipseCON 2004 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
- API First (pdf) Best practices for API development based, EclipseCON 2005 presentation by Jim des Rivieres
- Late-breaking 3.2 API changes
- Provisional API Guidelines
- API Tutorial 2006 at EclipseCon
- [[Export-Package] | Policy on use of Export-Package]
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