You can create pluglets to handle routine tasks and use
their functionality to explore and learn the application programming
interfaces (API) of the workbench platform and other product extensions.
You can use the Java™ development
environment, and can access the APIs of the workbench plug-ins to
extend and implement the existing pluglets.
About this task
The pluglets component enables extensibility through the
Eclipse extension points and the pluglets API. For more information
about extending product functionality, examine the com.ibm.xtools.pluglets.Pluglet
class in the public API which contains several convenient helper methods
for standard message dialog boxes, pluglet output, and so on.