2.5. Distilled

• Because Eclipse is an open source project, you have an inside view of the ongoing development. But most newcomers should not download the nightly or integration builds. Stay with the latest release or maybe a stable build.

• Eclipse starts in the default Resource perspective. Switch to the Java perspective for most development work.

• Use the Java perspective wizards to create new projects, new packages, and new class files.

• Customize the code generation templates that are used to insert code into a new Java file.

• Run your application within the Eclipse workbench and use the Console view for command-line input and output.