comment-Wiki-based Software Documentation-1 Wiki-based Software Documentation

Hi, I would like to attend the conference but unfortunately am unable. I am interested in these kinds of tools and have written two documentation based tools for Eclipse: http://eclipsewiki.sourceforge.net and the experimental Subtext (http://www.stateofflow.com/projects/12/subtext) - a bit dead at the moment. Subtext uses an aspect-like language to present documentation relevant to the user in the current context.

Presenting documentation relevant to the user when it matters will help to bring the documentation alive and may engage the interest of developers more. The Mylar project (http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/) might provide some useful infrastructure to support this: Mylar monitors programming activity, actively searches for related elements, and extends the Eclipse UI to focus on the elements of interest.

Channing