June 09, 2005
More on software evolution
At the same time I wrote last night's entry on the misery of evolving interfaces, Cédric Beust published "Extensibility the interface way". While I do not particularly like Cédric's proposed pattern for dealing with versioned interfaces, I am always glad to read about people's ideas for reuse and software evolution.
One thing that keeps being mentioned in this context is Eclipse and, more recently, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. From what I pick up from interviews and working with Eclipse, the impression grows that IBM is dead serious about reuse and being around for the long run.
No matter which side of the moon your Java loyalties lie, keep an eye on Eclipse and the RCP. This is not about windowing toolkits anymore.
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