Eclipse Distilled (The Eclipse Series)

By David Carlson

In the 'distilled' tradition this is a concise introduction to Eclipse for developers of all levels. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321288157
• ISBN13: 9780321288158
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The right book to start with Eclipse

This is an excellent book and I recommend it highly to start with Eclipse. It saved me an incredible amount of time by providing the right level of information on virtually all important features of Eclipse. This book is for people with a background in development, but new to Eclipse.

Configuration Salvation

I manage multiple developers spread around the globe building product relying on the Eclipse Web Standard Tools (WST) and other parts of Eclipse. Getting each team member's IDE configured and updated was sucking up time. Chapter 9, "Updating the Eclipse IDE," saved us time equivalent to purchasing boxes of the book. Now we have flexible, consistent, repeatable configurations that make upgrading to new versions of WST and other features easy. We have adjusted our team's practices based on info in other chapters too. Carlson has provided excellent information for developers who want to work more effectively in the Eclipse environment. I'm delighted with the purchase.

Book source code is available

Source code examples from Eclipse Distilled are now available at www.EclipseDistilled.com, either in a single ZIP for from CVS on SourceForge. The examples include a comprehensive Ant build file that generates Java from XML Schemas using Apache Axis, automates regeneration whenever the schemas are modified, runs all JUnit tests in a project, and creates an HTML report of the test results. The examples are organized in several projects that you can add to your Eclipse workspace using the structure described in Chapters 6 and 13.

Finally, an Eclipse book for developers

Solid book. Very pragmatic with useful info--I've been using Eclipse for a couple of years and I learned a couple of tricks in the first few chapters. It's not for people who want to develop plugins for Eclipse; if that's your goal, "Contributing to Eclipse" is a better choice. It's for people who want to become more productive users of Eclipse. The focus is primarily on using it as a Java IDE, both in general and in the context of Agile development. Weighing it at 300 pages--instead of 1300 pages, it's a book that you can actually read cover to cover and use as a reference. I've already recommended to people that I work with and they've been very pleased.

Increase your proficiency with Eclipse today

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.