Chapter 4. Customizing Your Workbench
Software developers are passionate about their tools and especially the way in which those tools fit their ideals. The Eclipse workbench is amazingly versatile in its ability to accommodate different development tasks and varying developer preferences. Each release of the Eclipse platform adds more preference settings that enable deeper customization of capabilities and styles, and there is exponential growth in the number of plug-in contributions that extend Eclipse for new and specialized tasks.
But this versatility can be overwhelming to Eclipse newcomers. Powerful customization features may go unnoticed for months, simply because users did not know to look for them. This chapter provides a tour of Eclipse ...
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