In my why have all your eggs in one basket? blog post, I described how you could completely customise the structure of your Eclipse projects to be almost any thing you wanted. Perhaps though, I may have been a little misleading, and could have implied that I think that this kind of frigging around is a good thing.
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Recently I encountered a problem that prevented me from adding features to my Eclipse 3.2.1 install using the built in update mechanism. I first saw the problem when trying to pull down the Ruby RDT; I kinda thought it might have been the fault of that update site’s config and ignored the problem by downloading the plugins and installing manually. Then I got the same problem trying to get hold of Scala’s SDT eclipse plugin… hmmm, so perhaps the RDT wasn’t at fault.
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Whilst doing something with EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework) recently I noticed some interesting behaviour when dealing with containment. I’ll describe it using two scenarios, each with an alternative.
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Adding domain specific semantics to a UML model is an incredibly useful thing to do. It enables early validation of thinking and ideally puts constraints onto the development teams that are required to help secure a sucessful delivery. It could also enable better code generation, but I’m not a fan of that!
Adding some validation constraints into the IBM Rational modelling tools is actually really quite easy, assuming that you’re not frightened of Java and Eclipse plugins. (Of course if you have no one in your team who isn’t frightened, perhaps you should just bite the bullet; it’s really not that hard you know 
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