Ed Burnette is the author of the Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide (to be published later this year by O'Reilly), co-author of Eclipse in Action, and editor of the articles section at eclipse.org. He writes about Eclipse and the Rich Client Platform at his Web site, www.eclipsepowered.org. Ed has programmed everything from multi-user servers to compilers to commercial video games since earning a BS in computer science from North Carolina State University. He is a principal systems developer at SAS, and lives near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with his wife, two kids, and a whole bunch of cats.
Since Eclipse's first release in 2001, it has become a popular environment
for Java development. In the period between March 10 and May 11, 2005, users
downloaded over 17,000 copies of one of the production SDK releases and over
3,500 copies of one of the stable (milestone) SDK builds on average every
day. A vibrant eco-system of developers, plug-in providers, authors, and
bloggers has grown up around it. Eclipse has also gained the backing of the
key Java vendors including BEA, Borland, IBM, SAP, and Sybase. Developers
like Eclipse because it provides a great platform for building Java
applications, and companies like it because it unifies their software tools
under one open source umbrella.
In late June of this year, the latest release of the Eclipse Platform,
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Ed Burnette is the author of the Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide (to be published later this year by O'Reilly), co-author of Eclipse in Action, and editor of the articles section at eclipse.org. He writes about Eclipse and the Rich Client Platform at his Web site, www.eclipsepowered.org. Ed has programmed everything from multi-user servers to compilers to commercial video games since earning a BS in computer science from North Carolina State University. He is a principal systems developer at SAS, and lives near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, with his wife, two kids, and a whole bunch of cats.
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