about the book

What will someone considering buying "Contributing to Eclipse" get out of the book that they can't get out of the documentation?

1. Erich's wonderful pattern stories.
2. A fully worked-out example with motivations explained. It's not just what you do, it's why we did what we did.
3. Test-driven plug-in development.
4. You can count the number of times we use the word "monkey". I can do it, but I have the Frame files, so it'd be cheating.
Kent

I can count the number of times the documentation uses the word "monkey" too.

Seriously, it sounds like a definate improvement over the documenation, which is what I expected. It's nice to hear it from one of the authors though.
[ November 12, 2003: Message edited by: Matthew Phillips ]