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Notes/Symphony plugin developers: Google has made all the tools of recently acquired Instantiations free. This includes the excellent SWT Designer, which is a RAD layout tool for SWT widgets. Details here. Have a great weekend.

As an extension of Mikkel's post on how to get started with plugin development, I submit the following:

1. Symphony Developer's Guide PDF (in Symphony SDK) -even though it's not Domino development, it can get a beginner up to speed on creating plugins in the Expeditor platform.

Finally, some sun here in North Jersey, literally and figuratively.

My goal for today's PDE programming has been met: Understand how to create a custom dialog in JFace for an Eclipse/Equinox plugin. So, you'd think it would just be as easy as declaring a Dialog-ish object, adding the layout and widgets you need to it and making it visible but its not. It's not rocket science either, but it is a step back in programming simplicity from what I'm used to. Essentially, there are three steps: