Eclipse - the open source and most popular Java IDE - integrates best-of-breed tools such as JUnit and Ant. As a community version of IBM's Websphere Studio Application Developer (WDAD), Eclipse offers developers a wonderful opportunity to work in and get acquainted with this technology.  It increases productivity and makes code building, testing, debugging, and deploying easier and more streamlined. The plug-in architecture of Eclipse has spawned a large number of Eclipse related sub-projects. With already hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, Eclipse will be the development platform of choice for a large proportion of the Java community.

The book is organised in 3 Parts.  In the first part, readers are introduced to the Eclipse Java IDE and shown how projects are laid out and the various facilities to help write Java code. To illustrate this a lip synchronization for the Java FreeTTS speech synthesis package is implemented. In Part 2, SWT and JFace (Eclipse's alternative to the Java AWT and Swing) are described and demonstrated in practice in a JavaLayer based MP3 player. In Part 3 the author shows how Eclipse can be used as a tool platform and an application framework. An Aspell based spell checker that seamlessly integrates into the Eclipse platform and can be used in all text based Eclipse editors is given as an example of how powerful it can be to work within this environment. 

Designed for Java developers getting up to speed with Eclipse, there is excellent coverage of JFace and SWT;  details on how to reuse and extend existing Eclipse components; a guide on how to import third party code and integrate it with your own code, and  real-world examples with the code provided on the accompanying website.

Table of Contents：

Introduction.

PART 1: THE JAVA IDE.

1. Going places.

2. Organizing your code.

3. Project 1 – Duke speaks.

4. Project development.

5. Advanced topics of project development.

PART 2: REPLACING SWING.

6. The SWT library.

7. JFace.

8. Project 2 – Jukebox.

PART 3: ECLIPSE AS AN APPLICATION PLATFORM.

9. Developing Plug-ins for the Eclipse Platform.

10. Developing your own Eclipse based products.

11. Project 3 – A spell checker as an Eclipse plug-in.

A  Useful Plug-ins for Eclipse.

B  Migrating projects to a new Eclipse version.

C   Important Downloads.

Bibliography.

Index.