Intended audience

The tutorial is aimed at programmers learning how to develop applications with ECLiPSe and tries to codify a 'best practice' for developers. It assumes a basic familarity with concepts of constraint and logic programming and is not a reference manual, so many concepts and language elements are only introduced very briefly. The material also includes some general topics from software engineering. Knowledge of general OO-related methodologies may be helpful to put that material into context.

The tutorial should not only benefit the designers and developers of ECLiPSe applications, but also those who maintain existing systems. It explains a number of typical design patterns in ECLiPSe programs, and also discusses how to isolate problems and how to make small, incremental changes to a design.