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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By : Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira
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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By: Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira

Overview of this book

<p>Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse are examples of tools that help developers by automating an assortment of software development-related tasks. By reading this book you will learn how to get Eclipse to automate common development tasks, which will give you a boost of productivity.<br /><br />Getting Started with Eclipse Juno is targeted at any Java programmer interested in taking advantage of the benefits provided by a full-fledged IDE. This book will get the reader up to speed with Eclipse’s powerful features to write, refactor, test, debug, and deploy Java applications.<br /><br />This book covers all you need to know to get up to speed in Eclipse Juno IDE. It is mainly tailored for Java beginners that want to make the jump from their text editors to a powerful IDE. However, seasoned Java developers not familiar with Eclipse will also find the hands-on tutorials in this book useful.</p> <p><br />The book starts off by showing how to perform the most basic activities related to implementing Java applications (creating and organizing Java projects, refactoring, and setting launch configurations), working up to more sophisticated topics as testing, web development, and GUI programming.</p> <p><br />This book covers managing a project using a version control system, testing and debugging an application, the concepts of advanced GUI programming, developing plugins and rich client applications, along with web development.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Eclipse Juno
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Version Control Systems
Index

Introducing Java views


As discussed in Chapter 1, Introduction, Eclipse's user interface consists of elements called views. The following sections will introduce the main views related to Java development.

The Package Explorer view

The Package Explorer view is the default view used to display a project's contents. As the name implies, it uses the package hierarchy of the project to display its classes, regardless of the actual file hierarchy. This view also displays the project's build path.

The following screenshot shows how the Package Explorer view looks:

The Java Editor view

The Java Editor is the Eclipse component that will be used to edit Java source files. It is the main view in the Java perspective and is located in the middle of the screen.

The following screenshot shows the Java Editor view:

The Java Editor is much more than an ordinary text editor. It contains a number of features that makes it easy for newcomers to start writing Java code and increases the productivity of experienced...