27.11. Summary
Here we have seen just a taste of the wide range of plug-ins available from Eclipse.org for use in writing RCP applications. There are plug-ins for text manipulation, user assistance, resource management, and so on. Beyond the Eclipse Platform and eclipse.org, the list becomes almost boundless.
The net result is that before writing your function, you should look around for existing plug-ins that you can reuse. When browsing plug-ins, always ensure that the plug-in was designed to be used in other applications. To do this, refer to the rules and guidelines from Section 23.4 for how to determine if a plug-in is RCP-friendly. The corollary to this is that you may also want to contribute some of your plug-ins back to the community for others to use.
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