Developing Plug-Ins - IAboutWindowTabFactory
This tutorial is brought to you by Jan Thielemann from evenos GmbH (www.evenos-consulting.de). If you have questions, criticism or improvement suggestions, feel free to visit me (Jan.thielemann) or write me an email
Goal of this tutorial
The goal of this tutorial is to show you how you can use the IAboutWindowTabFactory service in you plug-in project. The reason why you might want to use this service is to provide additional tabs in the AboutWindow (click on the image in the upper left corner) in the WebUI besides About, Credit, Info and Errors.
Prerequisites
Before you start this tutorial, you should take a look at the follwing tutorials:
Also if not already integreated into the trunk, you need to install the provided patches from https://idempiere.atlassian.net/browse/IDEMPIERE-2001
The workflow
The first thing you want to do is to create a Plug-In. If you already have a Plug-In and just want to add the TabFactory there, thats also ok. To create a new Plug-In you select the Eclipse-Menu File>New>Other... Here you go to the "Plug-in Development" section and chose Plug-in Project. Chose a name and a location, make sure the OSGi framework is Equinox and click on next. Chose your name and the execution environment and click on finish.
