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A newbie's guide to eclipse APIs

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Reid Holmes,

Robert J. WalkerAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

Pages 149 - 152

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370750.1370787

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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Eclipse has evolved from a fledgling Java IDE into a mature software ecosystem. One of the greatest benefits Eclipse provides developers is flexibility; however, this is not without cost. New Eclipse developers often find the framework to be large and confusing. Determining which parts of the framework they should be using can be a difficult task as Eclipse documentation tends to be either very high-level, focusing on the design of the framework, or low-level, focusing on specific APIs. We have developed a tool called PopCon that provides a bridge between high-level design documentation and low-level API documentation by statically analyzing a framework and several of its clients and providing a ranked list of the relative popularity of its APIs. We have applied PopCon to the Eclipse framework for this challenge to help newbie Eclipse developers identify some of the most relevant APIs for their tasks.

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Reid Holmes and Robert J. Walker. Informing Eclipse API production and consumption. In Proceedings of the 5th OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange, pages 70--74, 2007.

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MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

May 2008

162 pages

ISBN:9781605580241

DOI:10.1145/1370750

General Chair:
Ahmed E. Hassan
Queen's University, Canada
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Michele Lanza
University of Lugano, Switzerland
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Michael W. Godfrey
University of Waterloo, Canada

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