Monday, November 16, 2009

Customer usage of Eclipse Tools

Recently I read about the Eclipse UDC i.e Usage Data Collector a set of plugins which can help you to analyse what views/bundles etc of the tool is being used , in what manner by the end user.

Besides providing a lot of "Customer Tool Interaction" this mechanism definitely provides a hope to make tools intelligent based on the data being generated by customer activities.

The Eclipse UDC is very easy to use as it comes in Preference page for eclipse and can be configured directly from there.

The Database location can be specified in many different ways depening on what kind of application one is developing.

Looking fwd to see its usage with a combination of Artificial Intelligence where component learn and evolve by operating on the data gathered from customer activity on each one of them.