Eclipse For Dummies
Chapter One
Reader, Meet Eclipse; Eclipse,
Meet the Reader
In This Chapter
* How I learned to love Eclipse
* How the Eclipse project is organized
* How Eclipse puts widgets on your screen
The little hamlet of Somerset, New Jersey, is home to an official Sun
Microsystems sales office. Once a month, that office hosts a meeting
of the world-renowned Central Jersey Java Users' Group.
At one month's meeting, group members were discussing their favorite Java
development environments. "I prefer JBlipper," said one of the members. "My
favorite is Javoorta Pro," said another. Then one fellow (Faizan was his name)
turned to the group and said, "What about Eclipse? It's pretty sweet."
Of course, Faizan's remark touched off an argument. Everyone in the group
is attached to his or her favorite Java development tools. "Does Javoorta do
refactoring?" "Does JBlipper support Enterprise JavaBeans?" "Does Eclipse
run on a Mac?" "How can you say that your development environment is
better?" "And what about good old UNIX vi?"
Then someone asked Faizan to demonstrate Eclipse at the next users' group
meeting. Faizan agreed, so I ended the dis ... read full excerpt from Eclipse For Dummies ebook
