I would like to make a plug-in for eclipse to show the players overview. Initially, it aimed to show movement in TSI from week to week. It is also a way to become familiar with the use of XML in Hattrick. The plug-in is going to run in the Lotus Notes 8.5 client and in the normal eclipse client.
While the Eclipse platform is designed to serve as an open tools platform, it is architected so that its components could be used to build just about any client application. The minimal set of plug-ins needed to build a rich client application is collectively known as the Rich Client Platform.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform
The Lotus Notes Client version 8 and up is build on top of Eclipse. The Notes client can then use the same plug-in as the Eclipse client. One of the extentionspoints is the sidebar.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notes8-sidebar/
I intend to offer one or more extensionspoint to other eclipse developer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse.html
http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/int_eclipse.htm