Eclipse Series

The Eclipse Series.

Erich Gamma and Kent Beck introduce students quickly, yet thoroughly, to Eclipse, the emerging environment for software development. Contributing to Eclipse is a comprehensive, step-by-by tutorial guiding students with its many sidebars, essays, and forward pointers. The books also serves as an introduction to test-driven plug-in development giving students the confidence to create higher quality plug-ins.

Eclipse is an incredibly powerful platform for software development, but this

power and flexibility is often overwhelming for novice programmers and

sometimes daunting for experienced professionals. The goal of this book is to

distill significant features of the Eclipse platform and its Java development

capabilities in a way that is approachable for newbies and beneficial for senior

developers who are new to Eclipse. But this book is not just a catalog of

features and screenshots. It is structured around a theme of agile development

and describes Eclipse as an enabler for agile methodology within project teams.

A consistent project example is used throughout the book to illustrate the

progress of a new project from its inception through several iterations of

development, enhancement, and refactoring.

The Eclipse Series.

The Eclipse Modeling Framework unifies Java™, XML, and UML—enabling students to rapidly construct robust applications based on surprisingly simple models. In this book, leading EMF implementers illuminate every facet of using EMF for both modeling and code generation. Students discover how EMF makes modeling easy and is practical enough for virtually any Java project-and why EMF modeling provides a solid foundation for fine-grained interoperability and data sharing across multiple tools and applications.

Eclipse, a platform for building applications, was originally aimed at Web

application and image manipulation. With the release of Eclipse 3.0 there has

been a shift to the use of Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform (RCP). In other

words, using Eclipse as a base for everyday generic applications from media

players to productivity and desktop applications. Thinking of Eclipse as not

just an IDE but a platform for all application building is an evolution for the

platform and significantly extends its reach to developers. In this book the

designers of Eclipse as an RCP introduces the reader to the RCP concept and

walks them through a set of scenarios and examples using Eclipse to solve real

world, application problems. This will appeal to all developers who want to

develop and deploy world-class applications with rich, native GUIs.

Development areas that are already using Eclipse RCP include bio-medical,

embedded technology (handhelds, etc), enterprise and productivity applications

and banking.

The book is focused on providing developers with the definitive resource to

which they can turn for in-depth knowledge and practical solutions to

challenges encountered when extending the Eclipse environment for

commercial use. The authors use a very practical approach to teaching Eclipse.

They begin by introducing the Eclipse development environment, and

outlining the process of building a simple plugin. The rest of the book is

focused on describing each of the various aspects of plugin development and

furnishes in-depth knowledge of how to solve the various challenges involved.

Sometimes a developer needs a quick solution, while at other times that same

developer needs to gain deeper knowledge of a particular aspect of Eclipse

development. The intent is to provide several different ways for the reader to

absorb and use the information so that both needs can be addressed.