The Eclipse instrumentation framework allows developers, usability experts, or other interested parties to collect information about how people are using their Eclipse-based applications by sending back periodic reports to a central server.
The current preview release (v1.0.9) contains:
- The instrumentation framework.
- Data provider extensions for collecting info about:
- preference settings
- perspective layout
- menu and toolbar activation
- timestamps for preference changes
- usage counts for toolbars and menus
- Support for sending results to an FTP server.
- An example instrumentation extension, which collects these
data and sends them to a folder in the local filesystem.