Contributing To Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, And Plug-Ins

by Erich Gamma, Kent Beck

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.

Genres: Technical

395 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2003

About the author

Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to Eclipse plugin building. Is horribly out of date by now, but the basics are still valid. I just wish I had time to work on it.