Eclipse for Dummies

✍ Scribed by Barry Burd

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I am of course a java dummy so this book fit my needs nicely. Burd is concise without being pretentious and interjects humor just to keep the pace interesting-and lets face it------programming can be pretty boring.
Overall a very good book.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 8
Part I The Eclipse Landscape......Page 20
Reader, Meet Eclipse; Eclipse, Meet the Reader......Page 22
A Little Bit of History (Not Too Much)......Page 23
The Eclipse project......Page 24
The Eclipse Technology project......Page 26
Create a Window?......Page 27
The Standard Widget Toolkit......Page 28
Relax and Enjoy the Ride......Page 30
Setting Up Eclipse on Your Computer......Page 32
Runtime Environment......Page 33
Downloading Eclipse......Page 37
Installing Eclipse......Page 38
Turning the ignition key......Page 39
Revving up before you leave the driveway......Page 42
Getting started......Page 44
Creating a new Java project......Page 45
Creating a package......Page 47
Creating and running a Java class......Page 49
Oops!......Page 52
the Eclipse Workbench?......Page 54
Views and editors......Page 57
What’s inside a view or an editor?......Page 60
Understanding the big picture......Page 62
Juggling among perspectives......Page 63
Using a working set......Page 66
Using filters......Page 72
Linking views with the editors......Page 74
Adding views......Page 78
Repositioning views and editors......Page 81
Detaching a view......Page 84
Fast views......Page 85
The Shortcuts page......Page 89
The Commands page......Page 92
Saving a Modified Perspective......Page 93
Some Useful Perspectives and Views......Page 96
Java perspective......Page 97
Java Browsing perspective......Page 98
Package Explorer view......Page 99
Outline view......Page 100
Hierarchy view......Page 102
Declaration view......Page 106
Javadoc view......Page 109
Tasks view......Page 110
and Members views......Page 113
Search view......Page 114
Part II Using the Eclipse Environment......Page 116
Using the Java Editor......Page 118
Using Keyboard Shortcuts......Page 119
Using Structured Selections......Page 120
Folding Your Source Code......Page 124
Configuring the smart typing options......Page 125
Using smart typing......Page 126
Getting Eclipse to Mark Occurrences......Page 128
Some marking magic......Page 129
Getting Eclipse to Write Your Code......Page 132
Using code assist......Page 133
Filtering code assist suggestions......Page 137
Auto activation......Page 138
Templates......Page 139
Using templates......Page 140
Creating your own template......Page 143
Coping with Comments......Page 150
Block those lines......Page 151
Formatting Code......Page 152
Eclipse’s Format menu actions......Page 153
Configuring Eclipse’s formatting options......Page 156
Fixing indentation......Page 160
Shifting lines of code......Page 161
Sorting Members......Page 163
The Organize Imports action......Page 164
The Add Import action......Page 166
Override and implement methods......Page 168
Better getters and setters......Page 169
Don’t wait. Delegate!......Page 171
Creating constructors......Page 173
Creating try/catch Blocks......Page 175
internationalization......Page 178
Adding other languages to your code......Page 182
Refactoring: A Burd’s Eye View......Page 186
Eclipse’s Refactoring Tools......Page 187
Parameter pages......Page 188
The preview page......Page 192
The problem page......Page 195
Selecting something......Page 197
Why is that menu item gray?......Page 199
Calling Eclipse’s bluff......Page 200
Refactor This!......Page 202
Renaming Things......Page 203
Moving Things......Page 205
Hiring a mover......Page 206
Dissecting a parameter page......Page 209
irresistible source......Page 210
Using views to move things......Page 211
Changing a Method’s Signature......Page 212
Kicking Inner Classes Out......Page 215
Extracting an Interface......Page 219
Eclipse dodges bullets......Page 222
Promoting types......Page 223
Moving Code In and Out of Methods......Page 225
Eclipse practices conflict resolution......Page 228
(for good reasons)......Page 229
Creating New Variables......Page 231
Giving higher status to your variables......Page 233
The Facts about Factories......Page 236
Finding versus Searching......Page 238
Using the Find/Replace dialog......Page 240
Using the Selected Lines option......Page 243
Searching......Page 244
File Search......Page 245
Java Search......Page 248
Using the Exception Occurrences action......Page 260
Part III Doing More with Eclipse......Page 262
Directory Structure......Page 264
Working with Source Folders......Page 265
Creating a separate source folder......Page 266
separate source folder.......Page 269
Working with even bigger projects......Page 271
Renaming your new output folder......Page 274
Working with colossal applications......Page 276
Adding extra stuff to a project’s build path......Page 279
Using drag and drop......Page 282
selected directories......Page 284
Using the Import Wizard......Page 286
Adding Javadoc Pages to Your Project......Page 289
Creating a Run Configuration......Page 294
Using Program Arguments......Page 297
Running with program arguments......Page 298
rerun configuration?......Page 300
Using Properties......Page 301
Using Other Virtual Machine Arguments......Page 303
Using Environment Variables......Page 307
Searching for Help......Page 312
Things you can use in a search expression......Page 314
Using a help working set......Page 315
Some useful Search view tricks......Page 317
Using the Help View......Page 318
A ten-cent tour of Eclipse’s Help view......Page 319
Some useful Help view tricks......Page 322
Need More Help?......Page 325
Squashing Bugs......Page 328
A Simple Debugging Session......Page 329
The Debug View’s Buttons......Page 332
Experimenting with Your Code......Page 333
Part IV The Part of Tens......Page 336
I Can’t See My New Project......Page 338
Unknown......Page 0
Failure to Format......Page 339
Large Isn’t the Same as Maximized......Page 340
Finding a Bookmark......Page 341
Get Right to the Source......Page 342
Ten Great Plug-Ins for Eclipse......Page 344
Cheetah......Page 345
Lomboz......Page 346
XMLBuddy......Page 347
Index......Page 348