EclipseCon 09: Max and John's Excellent Plug-in Adventure - the Highlight Reel

Eclipse plug-ins are easy to create, but are your plug-ins good Eclipse citizens? What are the common things a plug-in should do and not do, beyond what all the trivial examples show? How do you avoid and fix these common mistakes?

Drawing on a range of open source (including Eclipse and JBoss) and concentrating on IDE plug-ins (that is, not stand-alone RCP applications), Max and John will demonstrate a number of the common mistakes and propose solutions for each. We will see that the forces causing these anti-patterns can be resolved in a number of ways, each having distinct advantages and disadvantages.

This video was recorded at EclipseCon 2009.

Total running time 50:20 minutes