Eclipse 3.0
By: Compubomb @ Jun 25, 2004 @ 12:52 am
Eclipse 3.0 IDE for Java development is far superior in my opinion than it's previous version 2.x.
The newest version of Eclipse has one of the most streamline IDE interfaces i have seen since
Microsoft Visual Studio .Net. But Eclipse is free as in beer.
My first impression
was this is going to be complicated and hard to use like the previous builds of eclipse and netbeans
which was included with the sdk of java a little while back. Netbeans 3.5 is one of the most
complicated IDE's i have ever had the misfurtune of trying out and being overwelmed the minute i
open it up. Well, with eclipse 3.0, i was excited and very surprised to see how easy it was to get
started on building my first hello world console application using the "Welcome" menu i clicked on
the tutorial on getting started on building my hellow world application. It was a breaze, and now i
can actually get started working with my java book because i can now understand how to compile a
simple application using the eclipse IDE 
I am now excited to start learning java
just because of the pure ease of use of the Eclipse IDE. Java no longer seems like something i will
have to grudge through.
Two thumbs up from me.