…See also Part II…

I suppose the Javadt approach ran out of steam. For some reason,
it now takes a horribly long
time to invoke the request on an ObjectReference that
represents a java.sql.Connection.
(A horribly long time is time enough to have a smoke, and then to come back, see it’s still not done and go surf the web enough to leave the zone.)
So I decide to bite the bullet and look into creating an Eclipse plugin…

…which turns out to be not too hard. And, while I am at it, I will use
Java 6, and undo
the horrific crap I did to get around the lack of MethodExitEvent.returnValue()
feature…

However, here’s little but symptomatic discovery (duh!).
Javadt does not like a null EventSet — it just does not
check for nulls (which is ok, I suppose, for a throwaway reference
implementation). So I was returning an empty EventSet to it all
the while. But Eclipse will indiscriminately call resume() on it,
which is not what I want. So I am back to returning null. Fine. But how many of such little things would render this “framework” not really a framework… Or should this all be configurable?