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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

Running and debugging a plugin project


Running or debugging a plugin project is not different than how we do it with a Java project. Simply click on the green play button in the toolbar to give a go to our Hello World plugin. You will see that a new Eclipse instance will start. By default, this Eclipse instance contains all of the plugins installed in your development environment, plus every plugin project that's open in your workspace. This test instance is called Runtime Workbench.

Look for an Eclipse symbol in the toolbar of your runtime workbench. Click on it, and you'll be greeted with the Hello, Eclipse World message.

Debugging works just the same. Stop the current runtime workbench by clicking on the red square button in the console or by closing the Eclipse window. Place a breakpoint in the SampleAction class (on line 59), and hit the Debug button in the toolbar (the one with a green bug). Now, click on our Hello World button in the runtime workbench. The execution will be halted in...