| 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 guide to using Eclipse features and plugins in the context of real-world Java development. Examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse to build, test & 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 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 with the Eclipse JDT; Adding unit tests with JUnit, logging with log4j; Team development with Ant and CVS; Plugins for J2EE including the Sysdeo Tomcat plugin; Developing Eclipse plugins; Eclipse reference. | |
