Eclipse IDE

The World In and Around E C L I P S E

What’s in store…

The platform

Plugins and installing them

Perspectives and Views

Creating a Java Standalone and Web project

Working with Preferences

Import and Export functions

External Tools

Configuring Ant build

Shortcuts!

O R I G I N S

Version 1.0 – November, 2001

Serious usage started with version 3.0

IBM spent nearly $ 40 million on its development

Object Technologies International [OTI] - IBM subsidiary – takes care of Eclipse development

OTI developed VA4J [Visual Age] – re-written to emerge as Eclipse

Released as Open Source – still is!

Consists of 3 sub-projects: Platform , Java Development Toolkit , Plug-in Development

The P L A T F O R M

Platform Runtime – discovers all installed plug-ins. Does NOT load them

Workspace

manages user’s resources in file-folder structure

maintains low-level history of files

notifies Tools about workspace changes

Workbench – provides the graphical UI using SWT and JFace

Team support – plug-in facility for version control

Help – extensible documentation facility

Downloading E C L I P S E

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

JRE 5.0+ will be required to run Eclipse

Release version – thoroughly tested, major release

Stable version – before release, undergoing testing, relatively stable

Integration build – individual components are stable, but no guarantee on integrated behaviour

Nightly build –

built from the latest version of code

Gives a feel of the latest/upcoming features

P L U G I N S

Every component in the workbench is a plug-in

Extend the feature set of Eclipse

Examples – Web Toolkit Project [WTP], UML Designer, log4j viewer

Plug-ins repository - http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com

Can be installed in 2 ways –

Through the IDE

Manual installation

P L U G I N S - Installation Using the IDE Help >> Software Updates

P L U G I N S - Installation Using the IDE Existing plug-ins can be updated by clicking on ‘Update’ button there For a new plug-in, the repository site needs to be added Enter the URL for the plug-in repository/archive

P L U G I N S - Installation

Download the plug-in archive [usually a ZIP file]

Extract it – a ‘features’ and ‘plugins’ directory are present

Go to the Eclipse installation directory

Copy the contents of extracted ‘features’ and ‘plugins’ directory

Launch Eclipse with the ‘- clean ’ flag

P E R S P E C T I V E S & V I E W S

The many number of different types of panes – Views

Pre-selected sets of views arranged in an order – Perspective

User customised perspectives also possible

Views Perspective

Creating – J A V A Standalone Project File >> New >> Java Project Either a new project content, or, existing content can be chosen Configure the JRE version to be used Enter a project name

Creating – J A V A Standalone Project If not selected, choose the Java perspective and Package Explorer view Default package structure with ‘src’ folder Default JAR’s imported from JRE Ctrl + N – get the new resource wizard Select a ‘class’ or ‘package’ to add

Creating – J A V A Web Project Ctrl + N – get the new resource wizard Select ‘Dynamic Web Project’ under ‘Web’ folder WTP plug-in should be installed! Other Web project artefacts can also be created later on

Creating – J A V A Web Project Enter a project name This will also be context root Web application server specified here Specify any of the default config presets WTP plug-in should be installed!

Creating – J A V A Web Project If not selected, choose the Java EE perspective and Package Explorer view Ctrl + N – get the new resource wizard Select a ‘class’ or ‘package’ to add Default package structure with ‘src’ and ‘WebContent’ folder. Default JAR’s imported from JRE

P R E F E R E N C E S