Re: [platform-debug-dev] Launch Configurations article draft available

[berestet@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Joe,

I read the article and it seem to be quite useful and informative. Even
though I have done some work
with launch configurations, I have learned a thing or two about them. :-)
For example, I knew nothing
about the launch configuration comparators!

One thing that I think this article is missing is a discussion on error
handling. The last bullet in the
'Putting it all together' chapter mentions that any lengthy validations
should not be performed by the
'value copying' methods, but rather such validation should be deferred to
launch time. However, I think
it would be helpful to know how to handle the case when this validation
fails.
Perhaps this is one area where framework needs to be enhanced in the first
place :-)

Thanks,
Vadim Berestetsky
Distributed Debugger Development




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A draft of an article on launch configurations is available for review on
eclipse.org.

From the main page, navigate to:
Projects-->The Eclipse Project-->Platform-->Debug-->Development
Resources-->Launch configuration article

Any and all comments/corrections welcome, but I'm especially interested in
hearing from people who didn't know much about launch configurations (at
least from a development perspective) before reading the article.  Does the
article at least get you close to the point where you'd feel comfortable
writing your own launcher?

Joe