Eclips--Step by Step


Joe Pluta

A Practical Guide to Becoming Proficient in Eclipse

Joe Pluta

Published by MC Press Online, LP

President: Merrikay B. Lee

Publisher: David M. Uptmor

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First printing ”June 2003

ISBN: 1-58347-044-1

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Dedication

To my wife, Lisa, the only constant in my Universe ”and the only person who knows what FTL means to me.

Acknowledgments

Once again, I've learned that writing a book is a process, not an act ”a long process.

Also, I've learned that I am absolutely , certifiably insane, but of course many of you already knew that. However, I can now point to the following adage: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In this particular case, this is my second book, and somehow I expected the process to be different. Man, was I wrong.

Writing a book is about having an idea and wanting to express it, and finding out along the way that the "it" that you want to express is changing, and so are you. Unlike a column or an article, which can be written in a span of hours or days, a book is a labor of months or years , and during that time many things change, and so too, must the book.

This is even truer of a book such as this, which is based on a technology, and a new technology at that. And while I want to thank the creators of Eclipse (which is the point of this rather lengthy acknowledgment), I also want to beat them with sticks for the very thing that sets them apart ”their unstinting desire to move the product forward and evolve it at breakneck speed.

This evolution is the thing that will make Eclipse and its underlying technologies successful, but it plays havoc on a writer. Even so, I want to thank the Eclipse team, for their unflagging effort, and the greater Eclipse community, for their willingness to answer even the "newbiest" of questions. I want to thank IBM for making this technology public, and I want to thank the third-party developers for embracing and extending the platform in a way I don't think anyone envisioned .

I'd like to thank David Gibbs, the often unsung hero of Midrange.Com, the man who was willing to take on the challenge of reviewing this book. And while he freely admits that he enjoyed taking potshots at the book, his input was invaluable in shaping what you read. Consistency must be attributed to him, lack of it to me.

And, as always, I need to thank Merrikay Lee of MC Press for encouraging me to take on this most daunting and exhilarating of challenges yet again.




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

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