Plugging In Property Pages

The org.eclipse.ui.propertyPages extension point from the base Eclipse Platform is used to contribute property pages.
What is a property page? It is a page that shows up in the Eclipse Properties dialog that users get to by right-clicking on an object within any tree or table view, and selecting the Properties action.

Extenders supply one or more <page> elements within the beginning and ending <extension> element for this. The attributes of this <page> element are:

Programming Details

To use this extension point your class will typically extend SystemBasePropertyPage to make it easier to create these property pages for remote objects. The only methods you must implement in your class are createContentArea(Composite), which populates the details page on the right side when the node is selected on the left side; and verifyPageContents() which, naturally, validates the contents of the page.



See the property page tutorial for a step-by-step example.

See the Eclipse Platform Programmer's Guide for more background information.