See the Quickstart Guide for a quick start!
The Ibator user interface consists of these elements
The new configuration file wizard will create a new XML file with a basic outline of a configuration file for Ibator. You do not need to use this wizard, but it is useful for setting up a new configuration file.
You can access the wizard from the menu: "File>New>Other..., and then selecting "Apache iBATIS Ibator Configuration File" from the "Apache iBATIS Ibator" category.
The run Ibator action is the heart of the Eclipse user interface. The plug-in will add a popup menu option called "Generate iBATIS Artifacts" to any XML file that has the root element of "ibatorConfiguration". To run Ibator, right click on an Ibator configuration file in any view and select the menu option.
See the page Using the Integrated Ant Task for more information about using the integrated Ant task.
The plugin defines these classpath variables that will be useful for anyone implementing an Ibator extension:
IBATOR_JAR - this points to the Ibator JAR file included
with the plugin.IBATOR_JAR_SRC - this points to the source archive for Ibator
included with the plugin. You can attach this source archive to the
Ibator JAR file to browse the source code.You can use these variables to easily add Ibator to the build path of your Ibator extension project. Ibator also defines a menu option that will add these variables to any Java project. Right click on any Java project, then take the menu option "Add Ibator to Build Path".