This would be cool to have in our current project. We’re pretty much swamped in XML config files. Setting up stuff like this right at the source level would be good. I’ll have to wait for our production environment get upgraded to 1.5 in like two years. 🙂
Eclipse is one of the best designed Java applications I can think of. I havn’t really inspected the architecture, but from a users point of view it is excellent to be able to download plugins adds so much functionality and sometimes almost transforms it into a complete new application. Managebility has an article with some good pointers about the design here.
With some catches. 😉 The free plan only lets you donwload 100MB each month. Check out streamload here.