{"id":557,"date":"2008-03-20T16:28:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-03-20T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:28:42","slug":"now-its-eclipse-that-has-baroque-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/557-now-its-eclipse-that-has-baroque-code.html","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s Eclipse that has &#8220;baroque&#8221; code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This provoked a wry smile, from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2008\/03\/20\/eclipse_e4_timetable\/\">Reg Dev article<\/a> on the forthcoming Eclipse 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Underpinning all this, though, is an attempt to escape the &#8220;baroque&#8221; 3.x codebase for something that&#8217;s simple, clean and modular. That means eliminating repetition in code and interdependencies found in the monolithic 3.x.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s getting to the point where it&#8217;s difficult to reach in and fix a bug without impacting lots of other things,&#8221; one e4 committer told EclipseCon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Eclipse is a child of the refactoring era. It is built using an MVC (Model-View-Controller), component-based, plug-in architecture. Design patterns guru Erich Gamma worked on Eclipse and on its Java Development Tools.<\/p>\n<p>If Eclipse is now a ball of spaghetti, what went wrong? Though its possible the problems are being over-stated in an effort to justify version 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1413cc46-6130-4039-a062-02269a5393a6\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\">Technorati tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/eclipse\">eclipse<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/erich%20gamma\">erich gamma<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mvc\">mvc<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/java\">java<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/refactoring\">refactoring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This provoked a wry smile, from a Reg Dev article on the forthcoming Eclipse 4: Underpinning all this, though, is an attempt to escape the &#8220;baroque&#8221; 3.x codebase for something that&#8217;s simple, clean and modular. That means eliminating repetition in code and interdependencies found in the monolithic 3.x. &#8220;It&#8217;s getting to the point where it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/557-now-its-eclipse-that-has-baroque-code.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now it&#8217;s Eclipse that has &#8220;baroque&#8221; code<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,62,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eclipse","category-open-source","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}