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Many companies have started adopting Eclipse as the default IDE for application development. In fact Eclipse has become so popular that the once popular Borland JBuilder and Weblogic Workshop have also been ported to use the Eclipse Platform. With this there are more and more user getting introduced/started to/on Eclipse. At first the IDE might be confusing with features like "Build Automatically" etc. I have seen in many forums where users complain of not able to get started on using Eclipse for their day to day development activities. The official Eclipse site should have been a place to find information; However its not, even after many revamps, I still feel that Eclipse.org is one of the most ...

One of the notable things in this years Eclipse Release (Europa) is the way the Eclipse packages are released. In previous releases each project(WTP,DTP) had to be separately downloaded and installed. For e.g. if you wanted a XML editor in Eclipse, you had to download and install the Web Tools Platform (WTP) package. With Europa there are set of 4 well defined packages targeted towards specific segment of developers. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers This package consists of the basic IDE with superior Java editing, incremental compilation, code assist etc. Also it includes the XML Editor (from WTP package). The other packages included are: Base Platform JDT - Java Development Tooling CVS Client XML/XSD Editor Mylyn - Task Focused ...

I have been wanting to host a dedicated site to write posts on Eclipse. Till now I was using another weblog to write content on Eclipse and related plugins. I have been trying to participate/contribute in the Orkut Eclipse forum, however its being filled with more spam and less of Eclipse these days. Its one of the primary reasons I intend to host a forum on this site which should help users to get started on using Eclipse as their primary development environment. These are some of the popular posts from my other weblog. History of Eclipse Install Eclipse Plugins - The Easy ...