Add or change content in welcome page

It is easy to customize the splash to use your own brand or logo during eclipse starts up. If you want to make your own welcome page, just follow these steps:

1. add extension point in your plugin

<extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.intro.config">
      <config
            introId="myeclipse.intro"
            content="introContent.xml"
            id="myeclipse.configId">
         <presentation
               home-page-id="root">
            <implementation
                  kind="html"
                  os="win32,linux,macosx">
            </implementation>
         </presentation>
      </config>
   </extension>

2. use xml file to define your pages and contents

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<introContent>
    <page id="root" content="content/root.xhtml"/>
    <page id="concept1" content="content/concept1.xhtml"/>
    <page id="concept2" content="content/concept2.xhtml"/>
</introContent>

3. how eclipse makes it work internally?

public class BaseExtensionPointManager {

	 protected static final String CONFIG = "org.eclipse.ui.intro.config";
	 
	 protected BaseExtensionPointManager() {
			registry = Platform.getExtensionRegistry();
		}

	protected IConfigurationElement getIntroConfig(String attrributeName,
            String attributeValue) {

        IConfigurationElement[] configElements = registry
            .getConfigurationElementsFor(CONFIG);

        IConfigurationElement config = getConfigurationFromAttribute(
            configElements, attrributeName, attributeValue);

        if (config == null)
            // if there is no valid config, log the fact.
            Log.warning("No Intro configuration found with " + attrributeName //$NON-NLS-1$
                    + " of value = " + attributeValue); //$NON-NLS-1$

        return config;
    }
}

public class IntroModelRoot extends AbstractIntroContainer {

    public void loadModel() {
        getChildren();
        determineHomePage();
    }
	
    protected void loadChildren() {
        children = new Vector();
        if (Log.logInfo)
            Log.info("Creating Intro plugin model...."); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // load presentation first and create the model class for it. If there
        // is more than one presentation, load first one, and log rest.
        IConfigurationElement presentationElement = loadPresentation();
        if (presentationElement == null) {
            // no presentations at all, exit.
            setModelState(true, false);
            Log.warning("Could not find presentation element in intro config."); //$NON-NLS-1$
            return;
        }
        
        loadTheme();
        loadConfigurer();

        introPartPresentation = new IntroPartPresentation(presentationElement);
        children.add(introPartPresentation);
        // set parent.
        introPartPresentation.setParent(this);

        // now load all children of the config. There should only be pages and
        // groups here. And order is not important. These elements are loaded
        // from the content file DOM.
        Document document = loadDOM(getCfgElement());
        if (document == null) {
            // we failed to parse the content file. Intro Parser would have
            // logged the fact. Parser would also have checked to see if the
            // content file has the correct root tag.
            setModelState(true, false);
            return;
        }

        // set base for this model.
        this.base = getBase(getCfgElement());

        // now load content.
        loadPages(document, getBundle());
        loadSharedGroups(document, getBundle());

        // Attributes of root page decide if we have a static or dynamic case.
        setModelState(true, true);
    }
	
    private void determineHomePage() {
        String pid = Platform.getProduct().getId();
        startPageId = getProcessPreference("INTRO_START_PAGE", pid); //$NON-NLS-1$
        String homePagePreference = getProcessPreference("INTRO_HOME_PAGE", pid); //$NON-NLS-1$
        homePage = rootPage;  // Default, may be overridden
        if (homePagePreference.length() != 0) {
            AbstractIntroPage page = (AbstractIntroPage) findChild(homePagePreference,
                    ABSTRACT_PAGE);
            if (page != null) {
                homePage = page;
                if(startPageId.length() == 0) {
                    startPageId = homePagePreference;
                }
            }
        }
        String standbyPagePreference = getProcessPreference("INTRO_STANDBY_PAGE", pid); //$NON-NLS-1$
        modelStandbyPageId = getPresentation().getStandbyPageId();

        if (standbyPagePreference.length() != 0) {
            standbyPage = (AbstractIntroPage) findChild(standbyPagePreference,
                    ABSTRACT_PAGE);
        }
        if (standbyPage == null && modelStandbyPageId != null && modelStandbyPageId.length() != 0) {
            standbyPage = (AbstractIntroPage) findChild(modelStandbyPageId,
                    ABSTRACT_PAGE);
        }
        if (standbyPage != null) {
            standbyPage.setStandbyPage(true);
        }
    }
}