The Object Teams Blog

Today I received my hard copy of the German Eclipse Magazin issue 3.10, which features a 4-pages article on Object Teams, so if you want to let a colleague know about Object Teams (and if that colleague understands German) give him/her a copy of that Magazin 🙂

The article gives an overview of …

• what deficiencies in OOP are addressed by Object Teams
• fundamentals of OT/J: teams, roles, playedBy, callout and callin
• the Object Teams Development Tooling
• OT/Equinox
• exemplary applications of OT/J

… and summarizes the gains in flexibility and maintainability.

There are a few errata which I’d like to correct here:

• The pictures of figures 1 & 2 are swapped
• Some text in table 1 is unrelated to Object Teams, in the manuscript it reads:
  

  Ende 2001	Beginn der Arbeiten an der Technischen Universität Berlin
  2003-2006	Kooperation TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FIRST, gefördert mit Mitteln des BMBF
  2005	erste öffentliche Präsentation des OTDT
  2006	erste Plug-ins mit OT/Equinox geschrieben
  März 2007	Version 1.0.0 des OTDT veröffentlicht
  2007-2010	Kontinuierliche Verbesserungen, Versionen 1.1.0 – 1.4.0
  Januar 2010	Eclipse Object Teams Projekt kreiert, Beginn des Umzuges

• The CD claims to contain the Object Teams Development Tooling, however, you’ll only find the jar of the command line compiler. But no problem, simply visit the download page and you’ll find all you need to install the OTDT into Eclipse 3.6 M6 (or earlier versions)

Edit: The magazine has provided an online version with these errata fixed.

Enjoy the read!