More EclipseCon Notes
I went to two other talks yesterday but had to leave in the middle of both. Why can't I just be at the conference... Ah well paying the bills is better than being hungry :-)
Plugin talk and the new OSGi talk was really good. The presenter (Nick Edgar) was great! He had a really funny set of questions to point out the way OSGi plugins know about their dependencies but don't have a nervous breakdown if they don't see them. It was full of great physco-bable very funny. Bottom line is that making the Eclipse runtime capable of doing dynamic loading and unloading of plugins is (relatively) easily. The hard thing is getting all the plugins to be aware of the dynamic nature. In other words the Foo plugin should not give up the ghost if it can't find the Bar plugin.
XP w/ Eclipse good talk but I was disappointed that I did not get to see Joshua Kerievsky. If you have not read the refactoring to patterns book you should. The part of the talk I got to see was all about JUnit integration which was really cool but I have the great fortune of already knowing most of what was covered. Cool Stuff;
- You can run a test, a suite or even all the tests in a project, just select the project and use Run->Run As->JUnit Test
- You can use QuickFix to drive your TDD process
I'll try to post more about this soon...
