Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer by David Gallardo, Ed Burnett, Robert McGovern

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  • Pub. Date: May 2003
  • 383pp
  • Sales Rank: 377,442

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    • Pub. Date: May 2003
    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 383pp
    • Sales Rank: 377,442

    Synopsis

    The three authors are software developers with plenty of experience in the field. They explain how to use the open source tools in Eclipse, as well as web development plug-ins, in this guide to Eclipse-based Java programming. Coverage includes features of Eclipse 2.1 (released March 2003), Eclipse Workbench, the Java development cycle, building with Ant, CVS installation, SWT, and JFace. With this book, the publisher introduced the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP)—a subscription program in which the reader orders the ebook or print edition a month or more prior to publication. The customer then receives PDF chapters as they are finished, up until they receive the book. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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

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    Biography

    David Gallardo is an independent software consultant and author specializing in software internationalization, Java web applications, and database development. He has been a professional software engineer for over fifteen years and has experience with many operating systems, programming languages, and network protocols. He is also 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 and is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. His personal interest is in Java & Ruby and he has been involved in computers and programming since the days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Robert lives in West Sussex, England.

    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 providingUnicode 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.

    Robert P. McGovern, forty, was born in New Jersey just a few miles from the Meadowlands Sports Complex. After graduating from Holy Cross College, he surprised scouts and even himself by getting drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs. He made the team, and later played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots. After his NFL days were over, he attended Fordham University's law school, went to work as a prosecutor, and brought those legal skills with him when he was assigned as a judge advocate general in the U.S. Army's 18th Airborne Corps. He helped prosecute the notorious case of Sergeant Hasan Akbar, accused of killing two army comrades in Kuwait. After tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, McGovern is currently stationed in Virginia.

    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.

    Steven Haines is the founder and president of Sequent Learning Networks, an international training company focusing on product management and marketing. Previously, he was the senior director of product management for CRM applications at Oracle.

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    Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developerby Anonymous

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    February 06, 2004: This book is a very good explanation of what Eclipse is and does. It does assume the reader is somewhat familiar with IDEs and quite familiar with Java. It describes the reasons for Eclipse coming about and the way it is different from other IDEs. It gives some description of how to use it to start a project and how to set some preferences and properties. It does not give all the various details about every preference and property but does give some idea about how to find out what they are and do. The examples it uses are on some very basic and useful features that Eclipse has integrated well. There is an overview on the Junit plugin and how to use it to do unit testing. Eclipse was designed with the focus on Agile or 'Extreme' programming style. The examples are decribed in the language of that paradigm. The unusual part of the book's style is how it presents an example of a problem and a solution, and then it may state that this isn't the best way to solve this problem and presents an alternative approach that is more practical, and so on. In this style, the book is more of a textbook and less of a reference. You need to read the whole book and proceed with examples as if it were a series of classroom lectures rather than as a way to quickly find out how to do something. Many of the example programs that can be downloaded from the website don't actually work but serve to demonstrate some feature of Eclipse. One frustration, which I find in many such books, is that the example problems are uninteresting and trite. Many such books offer some baloney programs such as a car/vehicle/machine issue, which can be rather boring and pointless. This book offers a similarly boring problem of a star finder. I would love to see a book whose example yields an application that I might actually care to use. The book also describes how to use the Ant plugin, which is useful for someone building a large application with many setting options. Eclipse provides a way to tie all the various Ant features into a neat package. Since I had never used Ant or Junit these discussions were very useful but for someone with experience with them may be less enlightening. The book also covers briefly how to use Eclipse's source control features and how to use a Tomcat server within Eclipse. These are features that probably everyone needs to use and the book discusses how to set them up to work with and be controlled from within Eclipse. These do require some reader ability and familiarity with the tools. You may need to do some outside reading if you do not have a CVS server or have not installed Tomcat before.

    Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developerby Anonymous

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    June 27, 2003: If you've wondered if switching to Eclipse can improve your productivity, check out the guy on the cover with three hands! I've been using Eclipse for over a year now and can't believe how much I was missing. Sure, I knew about Ant integration, but the book explains why some of my scripts run fine in command line and not from Eclipse. JUnit, CVS, log4j and Tomcat integration are all detailed as well. Eclipse in Action shows you how to create your own simple plug-ins, manage your coding activities and get the most out of this way cool IDE.