You can download the ZIP archive and unzip the contained plug-in JAR to the dropins/ folder of your Eclipse IDE. After restarting Eclipse you'll see this trim widget:
By clicking the yellow arrow button (or pressing the F5 key) repeatedly you can advance through the tutorial step by step and watch your workspace being updated until you end up with a fully functional distributed application system.
Lean back and enjoy...
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Thank for this great talk. What is also very interesting is how did you create the automated plugin for your tutorial ?
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
ReplyDeleteI programmed that presenter plug-in myself ;-)
I was literally about to create something like this this week for demonstrations while teaching classes. I checked into using cheat sheets and they didn't quite cut it.
ReplyDeleteI've been using the snippets view to gradually build up examples while doing lectures. It's worked pretty well (and moves along faster than coding by hand during the lecture, which I used to do).
Are you thinking of open-sourcing the plugin?
-- Scott
Hi Scott,
ReplyDeleteI have not decided, yet, whether I make this plugin available to the public. If so, I'll post a note here ;-)
Cheers
/Eike
Cool - thanks. Did you approach it generically, or is it pretty-well hard-wired for the presentations you did? (That's usually the biggest pain when I decide to make things available... that extra level of making it useful for more that exactly what I needed at the time...)
DeleteThanks, and keep up the great work!
-- Scott
Hey, I'm a framework designer :P
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