10 Eclipse Europa Technologies that can save time

Introduction: Eclipse Europa provides a number of convenient features for browsing and editing Java™ files. Learn what the Eclipse Europa provides and how to use these features, and when you finish this tutorial, you might say, "I didn't know that before"!

Before you start

About this tutorial

This tutorial describes how to increase productivity with Eclipse Europa, offering 10 ways to accelerate development efforts in eclipse. Many of the features shown in this article to improve productivity are new or improved features introduced in the Eclipse Europa.

Goal

Learn how to make better use of refactoring tools, search tools, workspaces, and code templates. After completing this tutorial, you should be able to become an Eclipse advanced user-performing a smaller amount of work to achieve higher productivity. Our goal is to show you how to use Eclipse functionality to perform common tasks.

Prerequisite

It would be helpful if you had used Eclipse and completed some Java development. You don't have to be an expert, but you should be fully aware of the Java programming language in order to master the basic syntax and paradigms to maximize the role of refactoring the sections of this tutorial.

System Requirements

To follow the example of completing this tutorial, you need one of the operating systems supported by Eclipse Europa and Eclipse--mac os X, microsoft®windows®, or linux®. You also need to have a Java Runtime environment (Java Runtime ENVIRONMENT,JRE)--it is recommended to use at least the Java V5 JRE.

Brief introduction to Europa and its shortcut keys

Eclipse Europa

Prior to the Eclipse V3.2 release, there was no need to organize the distributions of individual plug-ins. In fact, one of the complaints about Eclipse is that you need to download the IDE and then spend a lot of time downloading and installing the plug-ins you need. This situation changes as the first synchronized release of multiple projects--callisto--. The Eclipse Europa is the second synchronous release of the project, which promotes eclipse to V3.3 and is an improved standard set of projects organized into the EUROPA discovery site according to the development type.

For dynamic Java Web development, such as JavaServer Faces (JSF) or JavaServer Pages (JSP), you only need to download the latest version of Eclipse and install WEB development features. For C and C + + development, you can use a set of related features and other features.

After you install Eclipse Europa, you can begin to take advantage of this powerful IDE, which provides a truly rich set of features and many of the productivity features that this tutorial will introduce.