By Steve Holzner
First Edition
April 2004
Pages: 334
ISBN 10: 0-596-00641-1 |
ISBN 13: 9780596006419
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
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.
Full Description
- 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
Cover | Table of Contents | Colophon
Featured customer reviews
missing chapter???, April 23 2006
the back cover implies that the book covers EJB and data based devlopment. I realize that this is a book about eclipse and not EJB, but I was looking for an overview of using eclise in their development.
I have scanned the TOC and the index and can't find anything on EJB.
Am I missing something?
From the old world, June 16 2004
Excellent past performance from O'Reilly raises the expectations to ever higher levels. Unfortunately this one does not deliver the to promise on its cover. Mine says Coverage of 3.0, but it is all about version 2 with a preview chapter on 3.0.
Major gripes:
Contrary to the excellent Tomcat, the definitive guide, this book hasn't heard about Mac OSX.
No specific instructions covering every major OS.
No detailed explanations about 'every' way to connect to a CVS server, covering all of pserver, ext and extssh. Setting up to a CVS server with certificates instead of passwords, etc.
No coverage of installing java code compressors and obfuscators, available as eclipse plugins.
The v4all plugin mentioned seems to be on a dead end with one developer only.
No quick tips on setting up Ant to do everything after compile, (I do have that title as well, ;-) )
I'm halfway through, but doubt the disappointment will go away. This is a first printing, stating as date April 2004. Eclipse 3.0 is available much longer than that...
But maybe I looked at the banner saying 'coverage of 3.0' and missed that lacked the the more important tag line: 'The Definitive Guide'. This is not the definitive guide, but Steve Holzner and O'Reilly should publish as soon as possible. The platform IDE definitively merits that attention.
Eclipse breathes new life into Java, May 10 2004
Just wanted to give some props to Mr. Holzner for his fantastic guide to Eclipse.
As a student and part-time application developer, I have flip-flopped between C/C++, Ruby, C#, and Java as my language of choice, depending on the particular project's needs.
Eclipse has made all but Java unnecessary with it's ingenious IDE and powerful application deployment. Thank you, Mr. Holzner, for introducing me to Eclipse.
Media reviews
"Eclipse may well be the pre-eminent Java IDE available today, and this is a fantastic introduction for those who need an exhaustive overview. The 'step by step' nature of Holzner's writing is also very well suited for readers who may utilize this book as a 'two for one' initiation into both Java and Eclipse."
--Dale Jensen, Mac Guild, June 2005
"...this is a very good book that performs both a tutorial and reference function for the serious programmer wishing to use Eclipse. With the caveat that some of the later chapters may require skills not covered in the book to be used most effectively, this volume is accessible to developers at all levels of programming ability."
--M.S. Joy, ACM Queue, December/January 2004-05
