The CodeWarrior Integrated Development Environment has been developed with the objective of being easily extensible. To this end, it makes use of a plug-in architecture. A plugin is a shared library or DLL that provides some service to the IDE, and which can be simply dropped into the CodeWarrior installation and used without having to rebuild the IDE application itself.
CodeWarrior currently supports these types of plugins: compilers, pre-linkers, linkers, post-linkers, preference panels, and version control. Several other plugin interfaces will also be provided in the near future, including those to access the debugger services and RAD capabilities.
Metrowerks provides a downloadable software development kit to allow any CodeWarrior user to develop a CodeWarrior Plugin. This SDK contains headers, libraries, documentation, and sample projects demonstrating how IDE plugins are created. This SDK can be downloaded from
http://www.metrowerks.com/support/api/