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 (v1.0.1) contains:
- The instrumentation framework.
- Data provider extensions for collecting info about:
- preference settings
- perspective layout
- menu and toolbar activation
- Support for sending results to an FTP server.
- A report template generation wizard and template editor.
- An example instrumentation extension, which collects these data
and sends them to a folder in the local filesystem.