Overview


The Eclipse SDK ships with three different features: the Eclipse Platform, the Java Development Tooling (JDT), and the Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). The Eclipse Platform consists of little more than the base libraries and the Resource perspective, which you reviewed in the previous step, while the PDE requires a whole book by itself. What we can cover is the JDT.

The JDT includes several different components . The Java perspective is just one of three new perspectives added as part of the JDT; the others include the Java Browsing perspective and the Java Type Hierarchy perspective. We won't spend a lot of time in this book covering those last two, although those of you who are familiar with Visual Age for Java might recognize the Java Browsing perspective as being very similar to the Packages tab on the workbench.

Instead, throughout this book, and in this step in particular, you'll be spending most of your time in the Java perspective. There are many ways of opening a perspective, but in this step you're going to take advantage of the fact that creating a certain kind of project can trigger the switch to a corresponding perspective. In this case, you will create a Java project, and you will see how Eclipse automatically switches to the appropriate perspective, the Java perspective.

So, without further ado, let's create some Java.




Eclipse
Eclipse: Step by Step (Step-by-Step series)
ISBN: 1583470441
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 90
Authors: Joe Pluta

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