The Best Eclipse IDE Books of All Time

Debugging is crucial to successful software development, but even many experienced programmers find it challenging. Sophisticated debugging tools are available, yet it may be difficult to determine which features are useful in which situations. The Art of Debugging is your guide to making the debugging process more efficient and effective. The Art of Debugging illustrates the use three of the most popular debugging tools on Linux/Unix platforms: GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. The text-command based GDB (the GNU Project Debugger) is included with most distributions.

DDD is a popular GUI front end for GDB, while Eclipse provides a complete integrated development environment. In addition to offering specific advice for debugging with each tool, authors Norm Matloff and Pete Salzman cover general strategies for improving the process of finding and fixing coding errors, including how to:. –Inspect variables and data structures. –Understand segmentation faults and core dumps. –Know why your program crashes or throws exceptions. –Use features like catchpoints, convenience variables, and artificial arrays. –Avoid common debugging pitfalls. Real world examples of coding errors help to clarify the authors’ guiding principles, and coverage of complex topics like thread, client-server, GUI, and parallel programming debugging will make you even more proficient. You'll also learn how to prevent errors in the first place with text editors, compilers, error reporting, and static code checkers. Whether you dread the thought of debugging your programs or simply want to improve your current debugging efforts, you'll find a valuable ally in The Art of Debugging.

Discover the open source Eclipse Tasking Engine Advanced (TEA) project in this compact to-the-point book. It covers how to automate tasks using TEA and focuses on simplifying and aiding the creation of extensions for the Eclipse IDE in a way which makes them accessible both from the IDE’s UI and in a headless fashion from the command line. Additionally, Eclipse TEA Revealed explores the library of pre-built components included with TEA, mostly in the area of rich client platform (RCP)-based Java application development, for building projects, updating sites, dealing with target platforms, and more.

After reading and using this book, you'll be up to speed on the fundamentals of Eclipse TEA and ready to use it for more productive Java-based application builds and developments. What You Will Learn. View TEA’s internal architecture. Work with TEA’s APIs. Write TEA components. Use the pre-built TEA components. Set up headless environments using TEA. Who This Book Is For. Readers should be Java developers interested in extending the Eclipse IDE and/or setting up headless environments based on Eclipse.

This book gives an introduction into using the Eclipse IDE for Java development. It assumes no previous knowledge of the Eclipse IDE and can be used by a new user to learn the Eclipse IDE. Instead of presenting all possible options, this book focuses on the important parts of the Eclipse IDE, e.g. how to navigate efficiently, which settings helps you to get more productive and the like. It also contains lots of tips which allow advanced Eclipse users to work more productive with the Eclipse IDE You learn how to create Java programs with Eclipse and how to run them within and outside of Eclipse.

Debugging and unit testing are an important part in the daily work of a developer therefore these topics are also covered in detail. You find lots of examples and exercises to practice. The book also explains the usage of the Git version control system within Eclipse as Git is becoming more and more the dominate version control system.