- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (20 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321205758
- ISBN-13: 978-0321205759
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 865,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book encourages tool building by laying bare the design of an excellent tool platform, Eclipse, and encourages design by building a typical tool extending Eclipse. This tutorial on creating custom tools also provides an explanation of a highly effective software design philosophy. The authors revive the lost art of supporting existing work by building tools. This book improves the software developers skill set by building little tools, and gradually growing those tools into better-than-professional quality products to help a whole community of developers. This book revives that highly-effective practice of tool writing and provides lessons along the way that tool building and design are two of the most leveraged skills for software developers.
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"Even long-time Eclipse committers will be surprised by the breadth and depth of this book. A must-read for every new Eclipse extender."
--Andre Weinand, Eclipse Committer
Contributing to Eclipse offers
- A quick step-by-step tutorial. Have your first plug-in running in less than an hour.
- An introduction to test-driven plug-in development. Confidently create higher quality plug-ins.
- The Rules of Eclipse. Seamlessly integrate your contributions with the rest of Eclipse.
- A design pattern tour of Eclipse. A cook's tour of Eclipse with patterns.
- A comprehensive tutorial. See all the techniques necessary to write production-quality contributions.
Erich Gamma and Kent Beck introduce you quickly, yet thoroughly, to Eclipse, the emerging environment for software development. Instead of simply walking you through the actions you should take, Contributing to Eclipse, with its many sidebars, essays, and forward pointers, guides you through Eclipse. You will not just do. You will also understand.
Whether you need to get up to speed immediately or want to better understand the design rationale behind Eclipse, Contributing to Eclipse is the Eclipse resource for you.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was indespensible on a recent project to develop a series of plugins for Eclipse. The style is clear and concise and provides an excellent introduction to the core architecture of Eclipse. The later chapters on the design patterns used in Eclipse gives the reasoning behind some of the initially weird parts of the Eclipse design.
The only criticism I have is that the book applies to Eclipse version 2. Many of the more complex "gotchas" in plugin development relate to the new (OSGi) plugin architecture in version 3. Nonetheless, the book is still essential reading as the basics of Eclipse are still the same.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A tale from experience...
This book takes the interested beginner through all the steps involved in creating extensions for the Eclipse platform (www.eclipse.org). As part of my research I am extending Eclipse, and spent the first six months of this work hunting high and low for threads of reasoning which might help me.
The Eclipse platform is relatively young, and open-source: consequently definitive discursive documentation is hard to come by. The eclipse.org site is good, but does not contain any full, considered, end-to-end examples.
In contrast, this book teaches by example, and explains the decisions along the way. The examples are taken in "circles"; showing how the code begins with Eclipse extension points and builds until it too is capable of being published and extended.
Much of the knowledge which I had to fight hard to obtain in that first six months is covered in the first circle - this was hard won understanding which had taken many hours of reading non-relevant or incomplete information. To have all those half-truths, mis-understandings, possibilities and uncertainties cleared up in just a few chapters made me significantly more productive and more effective.
I read several of the early drafts of this book and based on those, I've pre-ordered my copy. If it turns out to be a dud, I'll amend my recommendation, but based on how much it helped me so far I can't give it less than five stars.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This must have been a great book when it first came out, but Eclipse has moved on. The Hello World application won't run, though you can get it running with a bit of work. Anything else in the book refuses to work under Eclipse 3.1. Shame :( You could learn a lot from a book like this if it could somehow be kept up-to-date.
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