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Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns and Plugins (Eclipse Series)Snagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns and Plugins (Eclipse Series) by: Erich Gamma, Kent Beck  List Price: £30.99 Price: £20.46 You Save: £10.53 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1 EAN: 9780321205759 ISBN: 0321205758 Label: Addison Wesley Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 06, 2003 Publisher: Addison Wesley Studio: Addison Wesley Related Items: Average Rating:
 Rating:  - ObsoleteThis 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. Rating:  - Mandatory reading for plugin developersThis 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. Rating: - A "bible" for Eclipse newbies AND old handsA 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.  Try searching the Internet for "Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns and Plugins (Eclipse Series)" or Ebay for "Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns and Plugins (Eclipse Series)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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