Code Centric Trainings with the Samples Manager

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Code Centric Trainings with the Samples Manager

On December 1, 2011, Posted by , In Eclipse, By , With 2 Comments

I recently gave a training course on – you guess it – RAP/RWT.
And as it seems natural for a training targeted at developers it was very code centric and had many hands-on exercises.

For hands-on exercises I find it useful to give a starting point so that tedious steps like setting up a project and the like haven’t to be done with each exercise.
For any non-trivial exercise it makes also sense to provide the final solution. In case a training participant gets lost (s)he would certainly like to compare her/his current state with the final solution of the exercises.

All this and some more offers the Eclipse Samples Manager. Jean-Michel Lemieux and Jeff McAffer developed this Eclipse plug-in in 2007 for their Eclipse RCP book. It allows you to package and deploy code samples. The tool allows users to install a starting point, step between different iterations of samples, compare them, and reset when their changes don’t work.

If you haven’t seen the Samples Manager yet, try this short video. It will give you an overview of what the tool can be used for.

I found the Samples Manager a useful tool and thought it was worth sharing. If there is enough interest, I will publish a small how-to on creating, packaging, and deploying samples with the Samples Manager in the near future.

Rüdiger Herrmann
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2 Comments so far:

  1. Maarten Meijer says:

    Please do provide a howto for the samples manager