[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: UDC in own RCP applications

[reiswich@xxxxxx (Eugen Reiswich)]

Wayne Beaton wrote:

> ...
> Your involvement in, at least, defining what you need the UDC to do for
> you would be helpful.

> We can discuss in this forum if you'd like, or you can create bug
> reports in Eclipse bugzilla. Or both.

> Thanks,

> Wayne

Thanks Markus, thanks Wayne for your help.

I was now able to start UDC from the command line and had a look at the 
recorded data. What we are basically trying to track are the items below:
- which bundles, perspectives, views, toolbar, menu commands etc. has a 
user used
- how long has a user been working within a view, editor, perspective etc. 
- which widgets (buttons, combobox, text field) has the user clicked in an 
editor, view in what sequence
- which server side services have been accessed

Most of the items above have been tracked by UDC but the information 
provided was sometimes insufficient. So it would be really great to have 
the possibility to extend UDC (e.g. using an extension point) and provide 
UDC with own tracking information (e.g. UDCtracker.track("this string will 
contain my usage data") ).

Regards,
Eugen