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10 time-saving techniques in Eclipse Europa

How to get the most out of the popular IDE

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Nathan A. Good (mail@nathanagood.com), Senior Information Engineer, Consultant

22 Apr 2008

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Eclipse Europa offers many convenient features for navigating and editing Java™ files. Discover what they are and how to use them, and when you're finished, you may be saying, "I didn't know that!"

In this tutorial

This tutorial shows how to be more productive with Eclipse Europa, providing 10 ways to speed up your development in Eclipse. Many of the features shown for productivity are either new or improved features introduced in Eclipse Europa.

Objectives

You will learn about how to better use refactoring tools, search tools, workspaces, and code templates. After completing this tutorial, you should be an Eclipse power user — able to be more productive by doing less. Our goal is to show you how to leverage Eclipse features to perform mundane tasks.


Prerequisites

It helps if you have used Eclipse before and have done a bit of Java development. You don't have to be an expert, but you should know enough about the Java programming language to recognize the basic syntax and paradigms to get the most out of the refactoring parts of this tutorial.


System requirements

To follow the examples, you need Eclipse Europa and one of the operating systems that Eclipse supports — Mac OS X, Microsoft® Windows®, or Linux®. You also need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) — at least JRE for Java V5 is recommended.



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