| [mylyn-integrators] resource monitoring |
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(I’ve posted this on the dev
list, but no one has responded. Maybe you good folks here on the Integrators
list?) Is it a good idea to turn off resource monitoring? Is
there any chance that if I do that, locations that I visit won’t be added to
the active task context? I’m unclear on the benefits of resource monitoring. In
my organization, refreshes invariably pollute the context of an active task
with hundreds or thousands of irrelevant items that happened to have been
updated by a recent source-control checkout and build. Why might I even
want files that I haven’t visited or designated as “interesting” to be added to
my task context? A typical developer workspace in my org has many different
projects, 50 or so. We use a source control system that isn’t yet
integrated with Mylyn. A developer updates his workspace by running a
source control update from the command line, launching an external tool via
Eclipse that usually generates some files, and then refreshes the workspace,
triggering a build. There are over a hundred developers, so each update
usually brings many uninteresting files into the active task context. As
I see it, whatever benefits there might be from resource monitoring are
outweighed by the drawbacks. So I’ve experimented with turning off resource monitoring by
adding
ResourcesUiBridgePlugin.getDefault
().setResourceMonitoringEnabled ( false ); to the lazyStart() method of my plugin class. Right
now I see the desired behavior – when I visit locations, they are added to the
context, as normal; no external changes show up in the task context after
I run the update from source control via the command line and then run the
external tool from within Eclipse. However, a couple of days ago,
when I installed a version of my connector with what I believe was the same
change, visited locations were _not_ added to the context. Any
idea why Mylyn might have behaved that way? Does detection and addition
to the context of visited locations in any way depend on resource monitoring? Larry Edelstein Senior Member of Technical Staff Salesforce.com |