How to use XMLEditor or an Editor plugin created in Eclipse RCP4

Question

I am newbie in Eclipse RCP so please help me this. Suppose I have a SimpleTextEditor extends TextEditor plugin created in Eclipse Kepler (4.x) with a FileEditorInput and SimpleDocumentProvider. How do I show this Editor and open a file in the editor in the Workbench or Part in application model.

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

In a pure e4 application you can not use the old Eclipse 3.x style editors. It is up to you to design how you want your part to work.

You can use the org.eclipse.jface.text TextViewer and similar but you can't use anything from org.eclipse.ui.editors

Edit:

You might want to look at this work by Tom Schindl which includes a simple XML editor for e4 although it looks like it may be out of date. Source of this example XML editor can be found here

The Vogella Migration Guide covers migration including the 3.x Bridge code which does allow you to use 3.x code in a e4 part.