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Eclipse in Action A Guide for Java Developers David Gallardo, Ed Burnette and Robert McGovern 2003 | 416 pages ISBN: 1930110960 |
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$44.95 | Softbound print book | |
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$22.50 | PDF ebook | |
From the Back Cover
I heartily recommend it... I'm a little envious that readers will come up to speed so much faster than I did.
-- Bob Foster, Eclipse evangelist From the Foreword
This is a focused guide to Eclipse-based Java programming. Extensible and elegantly built around a small core, Eclipse is the platform-independent IDE created by IBM and then released as open source. Eclipse has broad support from both large companies and the open source community.
Eclipse in Action carefully presents both the big picture and the facts you must know to master the proverbial 80% of what you do. It covers how to use the open source tools that are integrated with Eclipse, including JUnit, Ant and CVS, as well as web development plug-ins. The bookís authors are Eclipse early adopters toughened by intense use of the tool since its release.
This book encourages readers to learn through action. It is accessible to novice and intermediate Java developers who may not necessarily have experience with other IDEs. For more advanced developers it discusses how to build plug-ins to extend Eclipse's functionality.
What's Inside
- Eclipse design, technology, and purpose
- How to build, test, and debug with JDT (Java Development Toolkit)
- Eclipse and JUnit, Ant, CVS, Ö
- SWT and JFace
- Extending Eclipse
- Eclipse 2.1 features, like new refactorings
David Gallardo is a consultant and author with fifteen years of software development experience. He lives in El Paso, Texas. A twenty year veteran of SAS, Ed Burnette uses Eclipse to develop commercial software in C and Java. He lives near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Based in West Sussex, England, Robert McGovern is a developer who uses Eclipse extensively for open source projects in Java and Ruby.
DESCRIPTION
Covers Eclipse 2.1 Features:
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Eclipse is a new open-source, Java-based, extensible development platform designed for nothing in particular but everything in general. Because of its roots, it is currently most popular as a Java integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse ships with plugins for writing and debugging Java code. Additional plugins for more advanced Java development, such as JSP/servlets, are available from third parties.
This book provides a thorough guide to using Eclipse features and plugins effectively in the context of real-world Java development. Realistic examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse effectively to build, test and debug applications using the tools provided by Eclipse and other third-party open source plugins. The reader will learn how to use plugin tools for using Eclipse in a team environment, including using Ant for more sophisticated build processes and CVS for source control. Plugin-ins for building web applications, using J2EE technologies, such as JSP/Servlets and EJB, are also discussed.
Complementing this coverage of Eclipse in the context of development is a reference providing a comprehensive guide to Eclipse. Because Eclipse and its plugins provide a remarkable array of features, it is often hard to learn what features are available and how they can be invoked. This reference lays things out clearly: feature-by-feature, menu-by-menu.
What's inside:
- Getting started with the Eclipse Workbench: Perspectives, views and editors
- Working effectively with the Eclipse JDT
- Adding unit tests with
JUnit, logging withlog4j - Team development with Ant and CVS
- Plugins for J2EE including the Sysdeo Tomcat plugin
- Developing Eclipse plugins
- Comprehensive Eclipse reference
ABOUT THE AUTHORS...
David Gallardo is an independent software consultant and author specializing in software internationalization, Java web applications, and database development. He has been a professional software engineer for over fifteen years and has experience with many operating systems, programming languages, and network protocols. He is also the author of "Java Oracle Database Development." He lives in El Paso, Texas.Ed Burnette is a Principal Systems Developer at SAS, where he has worked on such diverse projects as compilers, debuggers, device drivers, performance tuning, and UNIX ports. He also helped write several commercial computer games. Currently, Ed uses Eclipse in the development of OLAP servers, mid-tier providers, and clients written in a mixture of C, Java, and C#. He lives near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Robert McGovern is a software developer for an international high voltage power supply company doing embedded development. He has a degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. His personal interest is in Java & Ruby and he has been involved in computers and programming since the days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Robert lives in West Sussex, England.