Anticipating Ganymede

I ought to become an Eclipse Friend, then I could have it now. But I’ll wait with the rest until later today. In the meantime I came across a hidden treasures of Eclipse 3.4 post. I really like the drag n’ drop outline view, really cool.

The pros and cons? of plugin architectures

Excellent post from Bill de hOra on the pros and cons of plugins. I read this as mostly pros really, or at least the pros strongly outweigh the cons IMO. And the Isolation con seems a pro to me, specifically in OSGi-land anyway.