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Chapter 6 Understanding the BIRT plug-ins

Eclipse's open, extensible architecture is based on plug-ins. Virtually everything in Eclipse is a plug-in. The Eclipse workbench is even a plug-in. A plug-in can be as large, complex, and sophisticated as a Java development environment or as small as an action to print a document.

The BIRT project consists of a set of numerous Eclipse plug-ins. There is at least one and, in some cases, several plug-ins per BIRT component.

An Eclipse plug-in has the following characteristics:

Every plug-in directory has a name beginning with org.eclipse.project_name. The BIRT plug-in directory names begin with org.eclipse.birt.


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