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December 19, 2004
Books that make you go "hrm."
I picked up a copy of the O'Reilly Eclipse book. I've been toying with Eclipse for about a year and a half, and I've always felt like there was power hiding just under the surface of the functionality I've used. Watching Stu (a co-worker) use Eclipse reminds me how little code I get to write these days.
Anyway, back to the book, I have to give it a 3 out of 5 stars. It tried to cover a lot of ground, and was a useful overview of using Eclipse with various technologies (Ant, Struts, Tomcat, etc.). Unfortunately it could have covered more useful ground if it had been consistent in it's assumptions that the reader was versed in the non-Eclipse technologies and hadn't spent pages showing how to construct a JSP, or tweak a servlet deployment descriptor.
As an introductory overview it's pretty good, but if you've been using Eclipse for any length of time, I don't know that you'll find to much terribly new and interesting.
Posted by dberger at December 19, 2004 9:58 AM