Overview
Eclipse Distilled
David Carlson
Foreword by Grady Booch
Series Editors
Erich Gamma Lee Nackman John Wiegand
A Concise Introduction to Eclipse for the Productive Programmer
Organized for rapid access, focused on productivity, Eclipse Distilled brings together all the answers you need to make the most of today's most powerful Java development environment. David Carlson introduces proven best practices for working with Eclipse, and shows exactly how to integrate Eclipse into any Agile development process.
Part I shows how to customize workspaces, projects, perspectives, and views for optimal efficiency—and how to leverage Eclipse's rapid development, navigation, and debugging features to maximize both productivity and code quality. Part II focuses entirely on Agile development, demonstrating how Eclipse can simplify team ownership, refactoring, continuous testing, continuousintegration, and other Agile practices. Coverage includes
- Managing Eclipse projects from start to finish: handling both content and complexity
- Using perspectives, views, and editors to work more efficiently
- Setting preferences to fit your own unique needs—or your team's
- Leveraging Eclipse's powerful local and remote debugging tools
- Understanding how Eclipse fits into contemporary iterative development processes
- Performing continuous testing with JUnit in the Eclipse environment
- Using Eclipse's wizard-assisted refactoring tools
- Implementing continuous integration with Ant-based automated project builders
- Employing best practices for code sharing with CVS and other repositories
By focusing on need-to-know information and providing best practices and methodologies, this book is designed to get you working with Eclipse quickly. Whether you're building enterprise systems, Eclipse plug-ins, or anything else, this concise book will help you write better code—and do it faster.
About the Author
David Carlson is a developer, researcher, author, instructor, and consultant who thrives on innovative technology. He started using Java in 1995 and Eclipse in 2001. David has a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arizona and is a frequent speaker at conferences and a contributor to technical journals. He is creator of the hyperModel plug-in for Eclipse, and author of Modeling XML Applications with UML (Addison-Wesley, 2001).
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Addison-Wesley
www.awprofessional.com/series/eclipse
ISBN 0-321-28815-7
$34.99 US $48.99 CANADA
Synopsis
Eclipse Distilled
David Carlson
Foreword by Grady Booch
Series Editors
Erich Gamma Lee Nackman John Wiegand
A Concise Introduction to Eclipse for the Productive Programmer
Organized for rapid access, focused on productivity, Eclipse Distilled brings together all the answers you need to make the most of today's most powerful Java development environment. David Carlson introduces proven best practices for working with Eclipse, and shows exactly how to integrate Eclipse into any Agile development process.
Part I shows how to customize workspaces, projects, perspectives, and views for optimal efficiency—and how to leverage Eclipse's rapid development, navigation, and debugging features to maximize both productivity and code quality. Part II focuses entirely on Agile development, demonstrating how Eclipse can simplify team ownership, refactoring, continuous testing, continuousintegration, and other Agile practices. Coverage includes
- Managing Eclipse projects from start to finish: handling both content and complexity
- Using perspectives, views, and editors to work more efficiently
- Setting preferences to fit your own unique needs—or your team's
- Leveraging Eclipse's powerful local and remote debugging tools
- Understanding how Eclipse fits into contemporary iterative development processes
- Performing continuous testing with JUnit in the Eclipse environment
- Using Eclipse's wizard-assisted refactoring tools
- Implementing continuous integration with Ant-based automated project builders
- Employing best practices for code sharing with CVS and other repositories
By focusing on need-to-know information and providing best practices and methodologies, this book is designed to get you working with Eclipse quickly. Whether you're building enterprise systems, Eclipse plug-ins, or anything else, this concise book will help you write better code—and do it faster.
About the Author
David Carlson is a developer, researcher, author, instructor, and consultant who thrives on innovative technology. He started using Java in 1995 and Eclipse in 2001. David has a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arizona and is a frequent speaker at conferences and a contributor to technical journals. He is creator of the hyperModel plug-in for Eclipse, and author of Modeling
Cover photo: © archivberlin Fotoagentur GmbH / Alamy
Addison-Wesley
www.awprofessional.com/series/eclipse
ISBN 0-321-28815-7
$34.99 US $48.99 CANADA
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe Eclipse folks call their baby a “universal tool platform -- an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.” All well and good, but many folks want to use Eclipse for one reason: to write great Java software. That’s what David Carlson’s Eclipse Distilled is about: nothing more, and nothing less.
Carlson’s been using Eclipse since its early IBM days. This book draws on that experience, plus his conversations with hundreds of working Eclipse developers. He offers realistic, best-practice guidance for organizing any project, large or small. He shows how to make the most of Eclipse’s Java editor to code more efficiently. He even walks through using Eclipse to support agile development. All that in less than 300 pages -- so you can spend more time working in Eclipse than reading about it.
Part I focuses on Eclipse’s core tools for Java development. You’ll install Eclipse, create and configure new projects, manage workspaces, customize your Workbench, master basic debugging. Eclipse offers multiple ways to perform the same task; Carlson tells you what’s working best for him and his many colleagues. In a detailed chapter on rapid development, Carlson covers Eclipse’s navigation shortcuts, Content Assist, code templates, Quick automated error correction, and more.
Eclipse fits agile methodologies especially well. In Part II, Carlson shows how to use Eclipse to support self-adaptive processes, continuous testing, refactoring, continuous integration with Ant, collective ownership utilizing CVS, even coding standards. Where you need to add plug-ins, Carlson tells you where to find them and how to configure them.
Agile or otherwise, Eclipse is becoming a great Java IDE. And this is a great book for anyone who wants to use it that way. Bill Camarda, from the April 2005 Read Only