[pde-dev] Plug-in Dependency Visualization Tool

[Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As part of my time at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies and my work on 
Google Summer of Code, I have developed a Plug-in Dependency 
Visualization tool as part of the PDE Incubator project.  I was first 
recruited by Wassim and I have been working closely with Chris Aniszczyk 
(my SoC mentor).   The project's website is at [1].

[1]http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency-visualization/

I have made an initial version available on an update site at 
eclipse.org [2] (Thanks Chris!).  It works with Eclipse 3.3 or greater 
(I tested it on 3.4 M2 and it seems to work fine).  I have also put 
together a New and Noteworthy to highlight some of the features [3].

[2]*http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/pde/incubator/visualization/site
*[3]http://www.eclipse.org/pde/incubator/dependency-visualization/new/index.php

It is pretty easy to use.  Simply load the view (Visualizations->Graph 
Plug-in Dependencies), and right click on the canvas.  Then select the 
bundle whose dependencies you wish you see.

If anyone has thoughts, suggestions, ideas, please feel free to open a 
bug report.  There is already a good suggestion to show extension point 
use. 

Cheers,
Ian

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R. Ian Bull
PhD Candidate, University of Victoria
http://www.ianbull.com
http://irbull.blogspot.com/