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3.3. Beyond This Book

The information presented in this chapter covers most of how Eclipse would be used in daily development. Eclipse has many other capabilities, some of which can be inferred from the numerous menus and tabs that were seen in the figures but not explored. The best way to discover these capabilities is to take Eclipse for a test drive. Load an existing project and try out the various options, experiment with the refactoring capabilities, and just generally click around and try everything out.

Although Eclipse has been used as as a Java IDE throughout this chapter, it is really much more. It is a platform into which various tools and views can be plugged, providing a central integration point. A set of views for C++ development are already available, and it is expected other languages will follow. There is also a set of views intended to make Eclipse useful as a tool to build Web services, although as of this writing this effort is quite young.