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.
- ISBN10 0321205758
- ISBN13 9780321205759
- Publish Date 6 November 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English