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This has been said before: Protected variables are evil (blog post gone). But apparently as I’ve been doing some debugging into the Eclipse code I’m reminded it needs saying again. Let’s suppose we write a base class public class SimpleBase {    protected Object ...continue reading

MS has a rule about this in FxCop. PMD has a rule: ConstructorCallsOverridableMethod. In both cases the point is to discourage the following weird behaviour. From Eclipse: public abstract class CellEditor {     protected CellEditor(Composite parent, int style) {   ...continue reading

In my last post I promised a post about something other than Eclipse for my next post. I’m sorry I lied, I had the best of intentions. However the problem of acceptance testing and Rich Client applications has been rattling around in my head for some years now. A couple of ...continue reading

If you don’t do development work in Eclipse – stop reading this post now, come back tomorrow I promise that I will write about something else. We’re writing our test plugins as fragments to be hosted inside the plugin they’re testing. Most of the time this works ...continue reading

For those of you spend your days working in Eclipse and trying to build rich client applications (RCP) the following piece of arcana will be useful. As your developing RCP applications you will undoubtedly need to test classes that require the Display, access to Graphics or other ...continue reading

I’m struggling to build an GEF application in Eclipse. Unfortunately the documentation for GEF consists of half a dozen tutorials that were written between 2003-4. These tutorials are excellent as far as they go but don’t really shed light in alot of areas. So this is ...continue reading

Or my pain with the Eclipse Profiling package. My task for today – find a performance problem with our Eclipse application. Rather than use the sampling profiler built-in in to the VM (-hprof option) I wanted to use a more accurate tracing profiler. So my painful journey began. ...continue reading