Getting Started with Eclipse

The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse

Chapter 2, Getting Started with Eclipse, provided an introduction to using Eclipse as a general-purpose development environment. It described the organization of the user interface and how to manipulate it, including resizing views and editors, stacking them, creating shortcuts, and customizing perspectives. It discussed how to run multiple windows on the same workspace and on different workspaces, and how preferences affect almost all aspects of Eclipse behavior. It covered how to create, edit, import, export, and otherwise manage resources. The chapter explained how to compare and replace resources, projects, and folders; how to recover deleted resources; and how to search your workspace and use the Help system. It described how to use other computer programs as editors and external tools, and factors that affect the performance of Eclipse.

Exercise 1 provides step-by-step instructions to illustrate much of what was presented in Chapter 2. No coding is required. The objective is to reinforce the material covered in this chapter through hands-on work.