Part 2: Getting Agile

Eclipse itself is developed using an agile development process and includes features that add agility to any development effort. The rest of us benefit from the fact that creators of Eclipse have added tools to make their own lives easier and more productive.

Chapter 8 introduces the principles of agile development and its use of iterative development cycles. Each remaining chapter in this section focuses on one aspect of agile development and how to accomplish it within the Eclipse IDE. You could read these chapters in any order or jump straight into one of these chapters before finishing Part 1. For example, if you are joining an established project team, you may not create your own Java project from scratch. Instead, you'll check out projects from a repository such as CVS. In that case, you should read through Chapter 13 earlier in your study.