[Novalug] Eclipse

[Doug Toppin]

I've been using Eclipse off and on for a year or so at work and in a
couple of Java classes I took at NOVA.  My goal for "sometime this
year" is to use it with the PepperPad3 SDK to develop/integrate some
aviation kneeboard software to assist in flying (writing area for
scribbling ATC freq and transponder codes and panes for basic
calculations).   I like it in general but like all modern software you
have to scale your cpu and memory to handle it.  In my experience so
far Java development is much more verbose and I tend to have too many
edit tabs open at times.  I keep having to scale my Eclipse edit font
down to squeeze more onto my display.  There are a plethora of books
on Eclipse now and I recently got the "Building Commercial Plug-ins
For Eclipse" which I'm slowly working through (for my little project).
 Java for me has pretty much required the use of an IDE to assist in
editing so Eclipse peforms that well enough for me.  I still have a
tendency to drop back (or up as it were) to vi for quick stuff though.
I'm not a pro by any means at Eclipse but I have a little experience
that might help others.

Doug

On 2/7/07, gregory pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:
> So, who knows and can explain Eclipse to me and the group ;)
>
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