The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse

Launched in November 20001, Eclipse is an open source, language neutral tool integration platform for developing Internet applications. The authors (members of the IBM Eclipse Jumpstart Team) describe the navigation and terminology of the environment and explain how to use the Java programming language within Eclipse. They then discuss the building of plugins and other necessities of application building. Finally, exercises designed to teach the writing of relevant code are included. The CD-ROM contains Eclipse SDK Version 2.0 and some exercise solutions and code examples. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sherry Shavor is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Sherry most recently managed the Eclipse Jumpstart team providing Eclipse education to the IBM development community and business partners. Sherry has taught Java technology to customers in the United States, Canada, and China. She has also taught at North Carolina State University. Since joining IBM, Sherry has a held a variety of positions in product development, presented at numerous conferences, and published articles in the Java Developer's Journal and IBM Systems Journal. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Jim D'Anjou is a Senior Software Engineer at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Jim has over 25 years of industry experience at IBM and elsewhere. He has held a variety of technical and management positions in development of products for relational database, database tools, application repositories, and application development tools. He holds two U.S. patents for work in software process automation. In March 2001, he joined the Eclipse Jumpstart team where his focus is on Team support. Jim works with repository ISV's who are enabling to the Eclipse Platform.

Scott Fairbrother is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Scott is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. He has developed object-oriented application frameworks for business process management. He has written specifications for IBM middleware on Windows 2000 and has also authored on the subject of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Most recently, Scott has worked on the Eclipse Jumpstart team, helping IBM and partners create commercial offerings based on Eclipse. He received a B.S. in Marine Biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1978.

Dan Kehn is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. His interests in object-oriented programming go back to 1985, long before it enjoyed the acceptance it has today. He has a broad range of software experience, having worked on development tools like VisualAge for Smalltalk, operating system performance and memory analysis, and user interface design. Dan worked as a consultant for object-oriented development projects throughout the U.S. as well as four years in Europe. His recent interests include object-oriented analysis/design, programming tools, and Web programming with the WebSphere Application Server. In May 2001, he joined the Eclipse Jumpstart team, whose primary goal is to help ISVs to create commercial offerings based on the Eclipse Platform.

John Kellerman joined IBM in 1984 with a computer science degree from Purdue University. He's since completed graduate degrees in Computer Engineering at North Caroline State and Business Administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has spent the majority of his 19 years at IBM in the development and management of application development tool products, including ISPF/PDF, VisualAge Smalltalk, VisualAge Generator, and Eclipse. John was a founding member of the Eclipse project, which got under way in late 1999. He is currently IBM Product Manager of Eclipse. His responsibilities include working closely on behalf of IBM with eclipse and the member companies to help grow the Eclipse community of contributors and commercial offerings.

Pat McCarthy, a Senior Programmer with IBM, is a specialist in the use and management of development technologies on a variety of runtime platforms. Pat's IBM career has included hands on development of business application systems in Poughkeepsie NY, 12 years of project management for the development of IBM Redbooks and education offerings in San Jose, CA. During the last several years in Raleigh, NC, he has focused on supporting the use of Eclipse technology in IBM application development products. Pat has a B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), an M.S. from Marist College, and is the co-author of more than 20 IBM Redbooks.

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