Eclipse is a powerful open source platform that gives Java developers a new way to approach development projects. In the Eclipse Cookbook, Java expert Steve Holzner demystifies Eclipse with practical recipes for more than 800 situations you may encounter--from deploying a web application automatically to reverse engineering compiled code, from re-naming all references to a class across multiple packages to initializing the SWT JNI libraries.
This book will help you find the answers about Eclipse, today's premier Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Eclipse is a great tool, but it's also a complicated one, and not everyone has the time to spend days trying to unravel it. That's where this book comes in; it unravels Eclipse for you.
Eclipse has long been needed in the Java world. There have been Java IDEs before, but not like this one. And if you've just been using the Java command-line compiler, javac, there's no comparison at all; Eclipse will revolutionize your programming. Eclipse is terrific because it's built to handle the details for you—syntax checking, error handling, adding imports as needed, targeting builds, commenting out blocks of code with a click, putting .jar files on the build path, refactoring, even reformatting your code. Eclipse makes it all happen for you. However, actually making it happen in Eclipse is up to you, and there's a steep learning curve.
