Eclipse
April 14, 2010 by BPELworld.com
Product Description
Java programmers know how finicky Java can be to work with. An omitted semi-colon or the slightest typo will cause the Java command-line compiler to spew pages of annoying error messages across your screen. And it doesn’t fix them–that’s up to you: fix them, compile again, and hope that nothing goes wrong this time.
Eclipse, the popular Java integrated development environment (IDE) provides an elegant and powerful remedy for this common, frustrating scenario. It doesn’t just catch your errors before you compile, it also suggests solutions. All you need to do is point and click. And it’s free–what could be better? Still, if you’re like most programmers, mastering a new technology–no matter how productive it will make you in the long run–is going to take a chunk out of your productivity now. You want to get up to speed quickly without sacrificing efficiency.
O’Reilly’s new guide to the technology, Eclipse, provides exactly what you’re looking for: a fast-track approach to mastery of Eclipse. This insightful, hands-on book delivers clear and concise coverage, with no fluff, that gets down to business immediately. The book is tightly focused, covering all aspects of Eclipse: the menus, preferences, views, perspectives, editors, team and debugging techniques, and how they’re used every day by thousands of developers. Development of practical skills is emphasized with dozens of examples presented throughout the book.
From cover-to-cover, the book is pure Eclipse, covering hundreds of techniques beginning with the most basic Java development through creating your own plug-in editors for the Eclipse environment. Some of the topics you’ll learn about include:
Using Eclipse to develop Java code
Testing and debugging
Working in teams using CVS
Building Eclipse projects using Ant
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Web development
Developing Struts applications with Eclipse
From basics to advanced topics, Eclipse takes you through the fundamentals of Eclipse and more. You may be an Eclipse novice when you pick up the book, but you’ll be a pro by the time you’ve finished.
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This book a a very good start for Eclipse new users in the way that it presents all basic features of Eclipse 3.0. I recommend it to any one.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a great book about Eclipse. I do all my Java development with Eclipse. I am a convert from the Netbeans IDE. This IDE is more powerful than Netbeans. Particularly because of the massive amount of plug-ins. This book goes into a lot of that. But I want more and wish I could find it. I am tired of all the IDE’s that I use for multiple application development. It would be nice to have one that would work for all apps. I downloaded the CDT plug-in. My C programs look great in Eclipse from Visual Studio .Net. However, I am having a horrible time trying to connect a C/C++ compiler to Eclipse. I can edit right now but not compile. I also use ColdFusion. There is a plug-in for that. It looks great as well. I guess more books need to be written. If you are just doing Java development then this is a must.
Rating: 5 / 5
Want to get up and running with Eclipse? This is your book. Informal style, packed with information. Recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
Holzner continues the O’Reilly tradition of concise books that span a subject. He has produced a How-To for Eclipse, geared towards the Java programmer. Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment that is free. IBM is reputed to have spent $40 million in its development, before putting it into open source. Since then, the enthusiastic response by programmers has led to even more improvements in its functionality.
When Holzner calls Eclipse an IDE, he means more than just the ability to develop a standalone Java application. Some of you may have used IBM’s Visual Age for Java. It was quite a nice IDE, and Eclipse is descended from it. But VAJ was really geared towards a standalone context. In contrast, these days you might have to build an application that will be used in a web server. Holzner shows how to do this, using Tomcat as the web container. Plus, if there will be several of you working on a project, and you need a version control system, he describes using CVS with Eclipse. Also, for an easy installation of your application, he gives examples of using Ant and Eclipse.
These examples (Tomcat, CVS, Ant) were chosen deliberately. They are probably the most common tools/programs in their fields. And they are free.
In this way, the “Integrated” in IDE takes on a powerful meaning to a Java programmer.
Rating: 4 / 5
The first 3 chapters were quite good. It might be a good book if it was updated. There have been many changes since Eclipse 3.0 and the screens are different. Some of the stuff I could figure out and was stuck after that. Even the programming examples are outdated. You have to spend way too much time debugging their Java examples to try to learn Eclipse. Don’t waste your time on this book! There are better free tutorials on the web.
Rating: 1 / 5