[news.eclipse.technology] Re: ANNOUNCE: eclipse visualization tool

["Chris Laffra" <Chris_Laffra@xxxxxxx>]

I was pointed out that sample did not include any source, which makes it
hard to run or change.
A new version of the Eclipse Monitor sample should be available soon at
AlphaWorks.

Chris Laffra

"Chris Laffra" <Chris_Laffra@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> If you are interested in visualizing eclipse plugins (watching pre-canned
> ones or creating your own), check out the Eclipse Monitor shipped with the
> Jikes Bytecode Toolkit (jikesBT). Using bytecode instrumentation, plugin
> jars are modified and the resulting introspection events are used to draw
> plugins and their communication and execution:
>
>     http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/jikesbt
>
> The visualization runtime is a plugin itself and declares an extension
point
> for people to define their own custom visualization (a sound generator and
> profiling tool is included). All this to be demoed at OOPSLA'03 at the
> demonstrations and posters track:
>
>     http://oopsla.acm.org
>
> The Eclipse Monitor is shipped as an example in source code with JikesBT,
> because frankly we don't quite know what to do with it yet.
Recommendations
> (such as moving it to an eclipse technology under CPL) are welcome.
>
> Chris Laffra
> principal author of JikesBT and the Eclipse Monitor
> IBM Ottawa
>
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