Eclipse Distilled - Softcover

Carlson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321288157 ISBN 13: 9780321288158

Publisher: AddisonWesley Professional, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Eclipse Distilled About the Author

David Carlson has a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Arizona (1991), specializing in knowledge-based systems and object-oriented technology. He has more than 20 years of experience in systems design, programming, and business analysis and was an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado in Boulder prior to returning to the consulting profession in 1994. Dave is currently a self-employed consultant working in Boulder, Colorado.

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Eclipse Distilled

David Carlson

Foreword by Grady Booch

Series Editors

Erich Gamma Lee Nackman John Wiegand

A Concise Introduction to Eclipse for the Productive Programmer

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.

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 Author

David 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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Edition details

• Publisher: AddisonWesley Professional
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321288157
• ISBN 13: 9780321288158
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312