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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

Eclipse Web Tools Platform


We are going to use an extension of the Eclipse platform to help us write, deploy, and run this chapter's applications. To be more specific, we are going to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP), which is a set of plugins containing tools for supporting the development and deployment of Java web-based applications. Among other things, using WTP, you can start, stop, and restart the web server from within Eclipse. Thus, you do not need to switch back and forth between Eclipse and Tomcat (or the server of your choice) as you deploy web applications. For an overview of all Eclipse WTP's plugins and their features, visit the project's site: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/.

You can download Eclipse WTP as a binary distribution from the project site: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/. Nevertheless, this is not the best approach. The most straightforward approach to get WTP up and running is to download the Eclipse version that is prepackaged with the...