Eclipse Distilled

Organized for rapid access, focused on productivity, Eclipse Distilled brings together all the answers you need to make the most of today s most powerful Java development environment. David Carlson introduces proven best practices for working with Eclipse, and shows exactly how to integrate Eclipse into any agile development process. Whether you re building enterprise systems, Eclipse plug-ins, or anything else, this concise book will help you write better code--and do it faster. Part I shows how to customize workspaces, projects, perspectives, and views for optimal efficiency--and how to leverage Eclipse s rapid development, navigation, and debugging features to maximize both productivity and code quality. Part II focuses entirely on agile development, demonstrating how Eclipse can simplify team ownership, refactoring, continuous testing, continuous integration, and other agile processes. both content and complexityUsing perspectives, views, and editors to work more efficientlySetting preferences to fit your own unique needs--or your team sUtilizing Content Assist, code templates, automatic compilation, and other rapid development featuresLeveraging Eclipse s powerful local and remote debugging toolsUnderstanding how Eclipse fits into contemporary iterative development processesUpdating Eclipse with new and improved functionalityPerforming continuous testing with Junit in the Eclipse environmentUsing Eclipse s manual and automatic refactoring toolsGeneralizing designs with Extract InterfaceImplementing continuous integration with Ant-based automated project builders Employing best practices for code sharing with CVS and other repositoriesWriting more consistent, maintainable software with Eclipse coding standards and conventions (c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.