(I've posted this on the dev list, but no one has responded. Maybe you good
folks here on the Integrators list?)
Is it a good idea to turn off resource monitoring? Is there any chance that if
I do that, locations that I visit won't be added to the active task context?
I'm unclear on the benefits of resource monitoring. In my organization,
refreshes invariably pollute the context of an active task with hundreds or
thousands of irrelevant items that happened to have been updated by a recent
source-control checkout and build. Why might I even want files that I haven't
visited or designated as "interesting" to be added to my task context?
A typical developer workspace in my org has many different projects, 50 or so.
We use a source control system that isn't yet integrated with Mylyn. A
developer updates his workspace by running a source control update from the
command line, launching an external tool via Eclipse that usually generates
some files, and then refreshes the workspace, triggering a build. There are
over a hundred developers, so each update usually brings many uninteresting
files into the active task context. As I see it, whatever benefits there might
be from resource monitoring are outweighed by the drawbacks.
So I've experimented with turning off resource monitoring by adding
ResourcesUiBridgePlugin.getDefault
().setResourceMonitoringEnabled ( false );
to the lazyStart() method of my plugin class. Right now I see the desired
behavior - when I visit locations, they are added to the context, as normal; no
external changes show up in the task context after I run the update from
source control via the command line and then run the external tool from within
Eclipse. However, a couple of days ago, when I installed a version of my
connector with what I believe was the same change, visited locations were _not_
added to the context. Any idea why Mylyn might have behaved that way? Does
detection and addition to the context of visited locations in any way depend on
resource monitoring?
Larry Edelstein
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce.com
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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