Eclipse in Action: A Guide for Java Developers

by David Gallardo, Ed Burnett, Robert McGovern, Bob Foster (Foreword by)

Overview

Eclipse is a new open-source, Java-based, extensible development platform designed for nothing in particular but everything in general. Because of its roots, it is currently most popular as a Java integrated development environment (IDE). Eclipse ships with plugins for writing and debugging Java code. Additional plugins for more advanced Java development, such as JSP/servlets, are available from third parties.
This book provides a thorough guide to using Eclipse features and plugins effectively in the context of real-world Java development. Realistic examples demonstrate how to use Eclipse effectively to build, test and debug applications using the tools provided by Eclipse and other third-party open source plugins. The reader will learn how to use plugin tools for using Eclipse in a team environment, including using Ant for more sophisticated build processes and CVS for source control. Plugin-ins for building web applications, using J2EE technologies, such as JSP/Servlets and EJB, are also discussed.
Complementing this coverage of Eclipse in the context of development is a reference providing a comprehensive guide to Eclipse. Because Eclipse and its plugins provide a remarkable array of features, it is often hard to learn what features are available and how they can be invoked. This reference lays things out clearly: feature-by-feature, menu-by-menu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930110960
Publisher:	Manning
Publication date:	05/01/2003
Edition description:	Seventh ed.
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Gallardo is an independent software consultant specializing in software internationalization, Java web applications, and database development. His recent experience includes leading database and internationalization development at a business-to-business e-commerce company, TradeAccess, Inc. He was also a senior engineer in the international product development group at Lotus Development Corporation, where he contributed to the development of a cross-platform library providing Unicode and international language support for Lotus products including Notes and 1-2-3. He is the author of Java Oracle Database Development. He lives in El Paso, Texas. Ed Burnette is a principal systems developer at SAS, where he has worked on such diverse projects as compilers, debuggers, device drivers, performance tuning, and UNIX ports. He also helped write several commercial computer games. Currently, Ed uses Eclipse in the development of OLAP servers, mid-tier providers, and clients written in a mixture of C, Java, and C#. He lives near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Robert McGovern is a software developer for an international high voltage power supply company doing embedded development. He has a degree in artificial intelligence.

Bob Foster has worked for several decades as a business turnaround specialist and successful entrepreneur. With a direct and unorthodox approach, Bob specializes in saving businesses that have been deemed unsalvageable. He currently lives in Henderson, Nevada.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xvii
	Preface	xxi
	Acknowledgments	xxiii
	About this book	xxv
	About the title	xxix
	About the cover illustration	xxx
Part 1	Using Eclipse	1
1	Overview	3
1.1	Where Eclipse came from	4
1.2	What is Eclipse?	7
1.3	What's next	11
1.4	Summary	11
2	Getting started with the Eclipse Workbench	13
2.1	Obtaining Eclipse	14
2.2	Eclipse overview	15
2.3	The Java quick tour	20
2.4	Preferences and other settings	31
2.5	Summary	37
3	The Java development cycle: test, code, repeat	39
3.1	Java development tools methodology	40
3.2	The JUnit unit testing framework	43
3.3	Further adventures in debugging	62
3.4	Logging with log4j	68
3.5	Summary	77
4	Working with source code in Eclipse	79
4.1	Importing an external project	80
4.2	Extending the persistence component	83
4.3	Refactoring	95
4.4	Summary	102
5	Building with Ant	103
5.1	The need for an official build process	104
5.2	Make: A retrospective	109
5.3	The new Java standard: Ant	112
5.4	A sample Ant build	131
5.5	Summary	140
6	Source control with CVS	143
6.1	The need for source control	144
6.2	Using CVS with Eclipse	146
6.3	Summary	174
7	Web development tools	177
7.1	Developing for the Web	178
7.2	Tomact and the Sysdeo Tomcat plug-in	181
7.3	Building a web application	191
7.4	Wrapping up the sample application	210
7.5	Summary	215
Part 2	Extending Eclipse	217
8	Introduction to Eclipse plug-ins	219
8.1	Plug-ins and extension points	220
8.2	The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)	223
8.3	The "Hello, World" plug-in example	228
8.4	The log4j library plug-in example	242
8.5	Deploying a plug-in	246
8.6	Summary	247
9	Working with plug-ins in Eclipse	249
9.1	The log4j integration plug-in example	250
9.2	Editors (TextEditor)	254
9.3	Views (ViewPart)	279
9.4	Preferences (FieldEditorPreferencePage)	301
9.5	Plugin class	304
9.6	Summary	305
A	Java perspective menu reference	307
B	CVS installation procedures	323
B.1	Installing CVS on UNIX and Linux	324
	Creating the CVS repository	325
	Setting up SSH Remote access	326
	Setting up pserver remote access	327
B.2	Installing CVS on Mac OS X	328
B.3	Installing CVSNT on Windows	329
B.4	Installing Cygwin CVS and SSH on Windows	330
B.5	Troubleshooting the CVS installation	332
B.6	Backing up the CVS repository	332
C	Plug-in extension points	333
D	Introduction to SWT	343
D.1	What is the Standard Widget Toolkit?	344
D.2	SWT architecture	345
	Widget creation	346
	Resource disposal	346
D.3	SWT and events	347
D.4	SWT and threads	348
D.5	Building and running SWT programs	350
D.6	Using SWT	353
	The BasicFramerwork class	353
	The MainApp class	356
	Trying the example	359
E	Introduction to JFace	361
E.1	Architecture	362
E.2	Building a JFace application	363
	JFaceExample class	364
	ExitAction class	366
	Index	369

Editorial Reviews

The technical information is dead on...I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone.

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