You may have heard the buzz about Eclipse, a powerful open source platform that gives Java developers a new way to approach development projects. Eclipse is Java developers what Visual Studio is the developer -. NET This is an integrated development environment (IDE) that combines the code editor, compiler, debugger, text editor, graphical user interface (GUI) builder, and other components into a single, user-friendly application. It provides a solid foundation that enables Java developers to build and run integrated software development tools for web development, application design, modeling, performance, testing, and more. Perfect as a companion to the Eclipse programming tutorial (such as Eclipse itself Holzner, O'Reilly, April 2004) or stand-alone ideal for all those developers who either do not want or do not need the tutorial approach, the Eclipse-oriented cookbook contains recipes for more than 800 tasks situation you might encounter when using the new Java platform - from running a web application automatically to reverse engineering compiled code, from renaming all references to classes in several packages to initializing the SWT JNI libraries.