Your Eclipse @ EGJUG
Submitted by Amr on Mon, 2006-01-09 17:37.
I have been working with the Eclipse development environment recently, and I couldn't imagine how great it is, and I wanted to share this with you, as it may be useful to someone.
One of the main reasons that kept me away from the Java is the unfriendly IDEs that are used for development, they were too slow to run on even the new machines, and when compared the Microsoft IDEs for .net or Visual Studio 6, Microsoft always wins.
IBM has really invested good in eclipse, and it has launched it to the open source world, so that all can participate and enhance it.
The most amazing feature I really appreciate is that it is very very fast IDE, as parts of it are native code for the host OS.
In fact, all of the .net 2005 IDE enhancements that Microsoft announced in the MDC05 are in eclipse from a year or more now (Code refactoring, Source enhancements, Source control support, Source history, versioning, etc..)
For that reason, a project was lanuched here in egJug to creat an eclipse build that has all the developer need to build java applications, we recieve suggestions on the best plugins to be added, take a look and participate Here
There are also a number of eclipse base IDE like Rational Application Developer - RAD from Rational Rose, means that all you need will be in one place (Designing, modeling, coding and even documenting the code).
Being an open source and at the same time support all these features is definitly a great thing, even more better than the traditional Java development IDEs (JBuilder, JDeveloper, JCreator, etc..)
Moreover, Eclipse is built using the new GUI technology SWT
Well, I think it is better to stop talking, and let u see your self what I mean.
Here is a page from the documentation it self, it talks about the enhancements in this version 3.1, just read it and you will know what i mean
uhh, one last thing, eclipse is available here www.eclipse.org
it is 85 Mb, but it worth downlading
