- Paperback: 312 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (14 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321288157
- ISBN-13: 978-0321288158
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 17.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 176,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Eclipse is an incredibly powerful platform for software development, but thispower and flexibility is often overwhelming for novice programmers andsometimes daunting for experienced professionals. The goal of this book is todistill significant features of the Eclipse platform and its Java developmentcapabilities in a way that is approachable for newbies and beneficial for seniordevelopers who are new to Eclipse. But this book is not just a catalog offeatures and screenshots. It is structured around a theme of agile developmentand describes Eclipse as an enabler for agile methodology within project teams.A consistent project example is used throughout the book to illustrate theprogress of a new project from its inception through several iterations ofdevelopment, enhancement, and refactoring.
From the Back Cover
Eclipse Distilled
David Carlson
Foreword by Grady Booch
Series Editors
Erich Gamma Lee Nackman John Wiegand
A Concise Introduction to Eclipse for the Productive ProgrammerOrganized 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 AuthorDavid 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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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While there are many books available for developers wishing to build Eclipse plug-ins, there are few that provide pragmatic coverage of how best to use Eclipse for building regular Java applications.
In Eclipse Distilled, David Carlson does a superb job of introducing how to best use Eclipse 3.0. David takes the time to share many of the tips and techniques that will allow the reader to embrace an agile software development process.
One of the qualities of this book is that it is only 290 pages. The discussion is "to the point" and always relevant. Most readers should expect to be able to read this book and increase their proficiency with Eclipse in just a few weeks.
Having read the book in its entirety I highly recommend Eclipse Distilled. While it will mostly be of interest to developers new to Eclipse, there are plenty of gems here that even seasoned Eclipse developers might have missed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is pretty much a user manual for Eclipse. As such its never going to win the Booker prize or be made into a film or play. But it does a thorough job of covering Eclipe's main features and showing how to use those in the context of an Agile development project. I learned several hints and tips and also got a better understanding of the architecture of the tool which was interesting. It also takes a brief look at the range of plugins available and some of the interesting things still in development. But the bulk of the book is focused squarely on Eclipse as an IDE for Java development. Most of that will work in other languages - I use Python via the PyDev plugin and most features work, if not always in exactly the same way. A good introduction for those daunted by the sheer breadth of Eclipse or whose brains are hard-wired to vi or emacs and need to make the shift.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A pretty decent intro to Elipse, very short book that you can read in a few hours and be up and running in Eclipse.
My only problem with it was not much information on deploying using app servers like JBOSS. But then again i bought seperate JBOSS book.
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