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Is there any way to embed or integrate a 3rd party editor in eclipse. We are trying to add Kettle's Spoon editor (java based graphical interface for ETL) to eclipse, without modifying Spoon's code. Is there a way to achive this. The basic need is - When user clicks on a Spoon file (*.ktr) then the Spoon editor opens up (along with all its menu and tool bar) in the editor pane of eclipse

Spoon is completely based on java and swt. Currently I am using Spoon as an external editor (through eclipse), but it opens up in separate window Spoon : http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/.01+Introduction+to+Spoon

Kaushal

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I don't know anything about Spoon besides the screenshots of it's GUI on it's website, so take the following with a grain of salt! (pun intended)

Most probably Spoon launches it's own Shell, hence cannot be embedded in an editor pane.

Rather, to achieve your goal you will have to create your own editor and register it through the org.eclipse.ui.editors extension point.

The difficulty to create an editor depends on how modular Spoon is.

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