1. Development with Eclipse
Software Engineering
Prof. Werner Krandick
Slides: Mat Schaffer

2. The Basics (or: nothing new)
Eclipse as first glance looks like most other development environments (Visual Studio, JBuilder, etc.)
Point out central editor window (currently displaying welcome page), project listing on left, tasks (errors) on bottom, outline view on right.

3. The Basics (or: nothing new)
Basic features
Project-based file system
Class-oriented browser
Actual files become secondary, as Eclipse views the project at the Class (object) level and does file management for you.
Organized error viewing and running

4. Why Eclipse? Powerful Versatile Extensible Free! and Open-source
works with Java, C, C++, PHP
Extensible
The whole platform is plug-in based, so new plug-ins are available for many tasks.
Free! and Open-source
Free download at
Q: What plug-ins are available for Eclipse?
A: Many many many. Eclipse has been compared to Emacs in terms of plug-ins. There are plug-ins for various programming languages (C, C++, PHP w/ MySql). There are plug-ins for chat clients (AIM, Jabber), web sites (Google, Slashdot), clients, modeling plug-ins (UML, Rose models).
- Try typing eclipse plug-in into Google and see what happens. Also you can find the Eclipse approved plug-ins on under the Plug-in project.

5. The Eclipse Environment
The Eclipse visual environment’s organization is based on Perspectives (under the Window menu).
Each perspective is a collection of Views, or internal windows (also under the Window menu). Organized for a particular task.
Views can be moved, stacked (tabbed), removed or added. All by drag-drop or the options in the Window menu.

6. The Eclipse Environment
Built in perspectives
Java development
Debugging
CVS
File navigation
You also modify or create perspectives (again, Window menu)

7. The Java Perspective Point out: Tabbed views at bottom (Task, Console)
File viewer on left
Class outline on right

8. The Debugging Perspective
Point out:
Same editor window as in previous perspective
Tabbed window at upper right displaying variable information
Outline still on right
Console at bottom
Run history on top left

9. The CVS Perspective Point out:
Repository browser on left with version numbers
Revision history with comments at bottom

10. Cool Features Automatic Error Detection Code generation
Errors are detected as you type, and every time you save
Code generation
Constructors
Inherited abstract methods
Getters/Setters
Import statements
Javadoc facilities
Note: the features covered here focus on java, not all these features will necessarily be available for C, C++ or other languages.

11. Automatic Error Detection
Errors are shown much like spelling errors in word.
Double click any listed tasks to jump to that file/line.
You can also force the building of a project (in the event an error is not caught on the fly), by selecting “Rebuild Project” from the Project menu.

12. Code Generation Creating a class Browse for superclass
Browse for interfaces
Add constructors from superclass

13. Code Generation Getters/Setters Create data member
Use “Generate getter and setter” under Source menu
Functions and javadoc are auto-generated!
Note in selection window, you can chose which getters/setters get created and for which data members.

14. Code Generation Import Organization
Write as if you had already done imports
Use “Organize Imports” (source menu) [Ctrl+Shft+O]
Imports are added for you!

15. Javadoc Facilities Need javadoc comments for a function?
Use “Add Javadoc Comment” under the source menu!
Javadoc comment template will be created for you to fill out with the appropriate information
Javadoc for functions from an abstract class or interface will automatically refer to the parent function.
See for more information about javadoc and its uses.

16. Debugging Facilities
Eclipse offers various features to make debugging easier
Double click on error output to jump to that file/line
Keep track of breakpoints
Keep track of variables (including variables hidden in objects)
All these features are made easily available in the Debug perspective.

17. CVS integration
Eclipse can associate a project with a CVS repository location.
Synchronization with CVS repository is then done by right clicking the project (or folder in the project) and selecting “Synchronize” from the “Team” menu.

18. CVS integration
Synchronization is also done visually!

19. Continuing with Eclipse
Visit to download a copy for your home computer
Get Release version (or latest)
Run ‘eclipse’ on any of the machines in the CS Lab
This is currently an older version, but much of the functionality is the same