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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

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