Eclipse Distilled

by David Carlson

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. 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. 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, continuous integration, and other agile processes. both content and complexityUsing perspectives, views, and editors to work more efficientlySetting preferences to fit your own unique needs--or your team sUtilizing Content Assist, code templates, automatic compilation, and other rapid development featuresLeveraging Eclipse s powerful local and remote debugging toolsUnderstanding how Eclipse fits into contemporary iterative development processesUpdating Eclipse with new and improved functionalityPerforming continuous testing with Junit in the Eclipse environmentUsing Eclipse s manual and automatic refactoring toolsGeneralizing designs with Extract InterfaceImplementing continuous integration with Ant-based automated project builders Employing best practices for code sharing with CVS and other repositoriesWriting more consistent, maintainable software with Eclipse coding standards and conventions (c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

312 pages, Paperback

First published February 24, 2005

Reviews

[Alejandro Teruel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was interested in learning more about Eclipse but using the Python development environment (PyDev) and using Git as a version control management system. This book is written for the Java programmer using CVS, and so, while some of the material is still relevant for the Python programmer, most of it isn´t. Even in 2015, the Python environmentin Eclipse, while including PyUnit, unfortunately includes very few refactoring methods.

Eclipse has also evolved considerably since the book was written in 2005, so even the Java/CVS programmer needs to be careful in some of the details.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better if you never used Eclipse before. 90% is old news for a daily user.