LAB guidelines (Eclipse)
Setup
Is there a desktop link to the Java
documentation?
♦
Skip this slide
Check whether Java tool are already
installed
Click on the “Add or Remove Programs”
desktop icon
Open the “Add New Program” tab
Select and install “Java 2 SDK …”
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Installed base
Windows 2000 PCs
♦ Java
2 SDK, SE 1.4
♦ Eclipse 3.1
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Desktop
Tool
API
Tutorial
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Introduction
Eclipse is an open and extensible
platform to develop IDEs (Integrated
Development Environment)
Developed by eclipse.org consortium,
whose prospective members are
♦ Borland,
IBM, Rational, Red Hat
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Workspace components
Material is organized in
a workspace
A workspace contains
one ore more top-level
projects, corresponding
to file-system folders
Tree-like structure
Files, Folders, and
Projects are called
resources
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Workbench Terminology
Menu bar
Text
editor
Tool bar
Perspective
and
Fast View
bar
Outline
view
Resource
Navigator
view
Bookmarks
view
Properties
view
Message
area
Stacked
views
Tasks
view
Editor
Status
area
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Java Perspective (1)
View focusing on elements meaningful to
Java programmers (packages, classes,
methods, attributes, etc.)
Java
project
package
class
field
method
Java
editor
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Java Perspective (2)
Let the developer browse the class
hierarchy
Type
hierarchy
Selected
type’s
members
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Java Perspective (3)
Search of Java elements
♦
♦
Point of declaration or
referencing points
Including libraries from other
projects
Hits
flagged
in margin
of editor
All search
results
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New project
File menu
♦
New Project
Select “Java Project”
Type project name
Finish
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New package
Right-click on project
New >
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New class
Right-click on
package
New >
Type class name
Finish
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Editor - Method auto-completion
List of available methods
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Java Editor
On-the-fly syntactic check
Click
to see
fixes
Problem
Quick
fixes
Preview
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Java Editor
Code templates quicken the writing of
common code fragments (e.g., for loops)
Statement
template
Ctrl
+
Space
Preview
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How to compile/run
Compilation is transparent to the user
♦ Whenever
files are saved
Program are executed with the
following button
♦ Output
console is opened automatically
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