If you are a computer geek like myself, then you'll most likely know what Eclipse is (for those who don't, you can read about it at wikipedia, which can explain it much better than I could).On its own, Eclipse is a pretty powerful Java IDE, but what make eclipse even more cool is that anybody can write plugins to extend its functions, and you can use Eclipse to write these plugins for itself. There are ton of books and articles to teach you how to muck around with eclipse, this book on the left for example is a good starting point.
The book is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 teaches you how to use Eclipse, part 2 teaches you how to extend Eclipse, and part 3 are exercises to give you practice on stuff you've read (part 1 mostly). If you have used eclipse before, you can probably just skim through part 1 and part 3.
The flow of the book is easy to follow (no need to flip back and forth) and there are plenty of clear examples to illustrate the concepts. There were a few places in the book that seems like it was repeating itself from a couple pages before, but this is only a minor distraction.
Unfortunately, I was only able to get my hands on the first edition of this book, which only covers Eclipse 2.0. The second edition covers Eclipse 3.0 (current Eclipse release is 3.2).
My rating: 4/5
1 comment:
Eclipse? Wha? doesn't it have something to do with the sun, the moon, or is it a Mitsubishi? :p
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