4.3.3.1 Setting up your Workspace

Although you can use the IDE of your choice to develop your accessibility plug-in, this guide will use Eclipse (specifically, Eclipse 3.4.1 with PDE plug-ins).

  1. Before setting up your workspace, it is important to have the ECP Remote Control plug-in available, as this contains libraries and interfaces that are required in order to develop your accessibility plug-in. The archive file rcp-support.zip, available from the Jubula installation directory, contains the RCP Remote Control plug-in. Once you have extracted the RCP Remote Control plug-in, you can continue setting up your workspace.

  2. In order to cleanly separate test code from application code, we recommend using separate workspaces for application and accessibility development. Create a new Eclipse workspace for accessibility plug-in development.
  3. Once you have created your new workspace, change that workspace's Plug-in Development Target Platform to include the RCP Remote Control plug-in, as well as all plug-ins that make up your AUT . Information on configuring the Target Platform plug-ins can be found in Eclipse's online Help under:
    Plug-in Development Environment Guide > Tools > Preferences > Target Plug-ins.

  4. Create a new Plug-in Project. The default values proposed by the New Plug-in Project wizard are acceptable, so simply enter a name for your new Project and complete the wizard without additional modifications.

  5. You now have a workspace with a properly configured Target Platform as well as a new Plug-in Project. You can now begin developing your accessibility plug-in.



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