Originally posted by Tim West:
What are your feelings on such a topic? Is there sufficient information on "plugins in general" for a whole chapter, or once you get past the basics ('unzip and put folder in /plugins'), is all information plugin-specific? I had a look at your book contents page but couldn't see plugins mentioned at all.
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I guess, even though the book does not discuss many plugins, it does introduce the JUnit plugin integration with Eclipse in chapter-6, which is named "Testing Java Apps with JUnit"... I hope that will also help us to know how to integrate plugins to JDT of Eclipse...
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Originally posted by Bill Dudney:
I've gotten several requests to write a chapter on plugins. There are many high quality plugins out there (MyEclipse, XMLBuddy etc) but its hard to figure out which ones are the best to document. After I finish the update for Eclipse 3.0 I'm going to start looking over the plugin landscape and see if I can come up with a good strategy. One thing I've been thinking about is doing a 'J2EE development' with Eclipse chapter and documenting the plugins I use for that kind of development. I'd love to get your feedback on what you'd like too see.
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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
why the focus on Struts?
It seems that these days people think web-app == Struts just like they think J2EE == EJB, where neither could be further from the truth.
IMO Struts DOES have 3 things in common with EJB:
- it's got its uses in a limited set of circumstances
- it's too big and overly complex for most projects
- it's overhyped so many people use it whether it's appropriate for the project or not
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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
why the focus on Struts?
It seems that these days people think web-app == Struts just like they think J2EE == EJB, where neither could be further from the truth.
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