The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse

Errata for The Java™ Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition, Eclipse 3.2 Update by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, and Pat McCarthy.

Overview

Eclipse continues to evolve as a platform. Two significant releases of Eclipse have ocurred since the publication of the second edition. In the interest of our readers, the authors decided it was time to update the code on the CD to Eclipse 3.2 standards.

The objectives of the CD update for Eclipse 3.2 were modest.

• Insure that the solutions and examples excuted correctly under Eclipse 3.2.
• Maintain compatibility with Java 1.4, 5.0, and 6.0.
  This does not include the servlet application in Exercise 4. It will not work with Java 6.0 because Tomcat 5.5.20 requires Java 5.0.
• Remove all deprecations since Eclipse 3.0.
• Unless otherwise noted, no compile errors (except for those that are purposely included in some of the Java exercises) or warnings when built using the Eclipse 3.2 and the Eclipse Java compiler compliance preference is set to 1.4.
  Note: if you attempt to load the solution to Exercise 4, com.jdg2e.soln.servletApp, without performing the steps listed in the exercise, you will see quite a few build errors.  Please refer to the readme file in the solution.
  
• The previous documentation for the examples and solutions contained frequent references to the website of the book: The Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra. Since the book's content is now part of the Eclipsepedia, the links were not longer valid and have been removed.

Most of the solutions and exercises did not require any significant update. A few had notable changes and a some were retired. The following solutions and exercies had noteworthy changes.

1. com.jdg2e.actions and com.jdg2e.actions.ide. Chapter 21

The extension points were changed to reflect api changes for handling key bindings.

2. com.jdg2e.soln.servletApp. Exercise 4

Changes in Eclipse 3.2, Tomcat 5.5.20, and Java 5 have necessitated changes in the exercise steps. These changes are documented in a readme in the input to the exercise, com.jdg2e.servletApp.input. Compile errors will be present initially. See instructions in file: Readme.txt.

3. com.jdg2e.swt.launcher. Chapter 14

This plug-in has been retired. Since release 3.1, Eclipse provides a launcher for SWT applications.

4. com.jdg2e.swt.snippets. Chapter 14

Over 100 new SWT snippets created since Eclipse 3.0 are included.

5. com.jdg2e.view.files. Chapter 18

Minor functional enhancements to support working sets and a memory of recently used filters.

6. com.jdg2e.simple.model. Chapter 18

Minor internal change to persist the model as an XML file in the plug-in state directory.

7. com.jdg2e.mini.configurator. Exercise 7

This plug-in has been retired now that Eclipse supplies PDE tools for RCP development. Though this project still exists it has no functional content.