3000 word blog entry on getting started with Eclipse
March 3rd, 2004
here.
Makes me willing to pay for Intellij. Not trying to dis Eclipse at all, it looks like a very powerful platform, just not so much of a good application yet.
Ideally there would be a few different builds of Eclipse available, with all the plugins “common” plugins bundled in, and a sensible layout.
BareBones Eclipse download #1.
JSP/web development (no EJB) download #2
JSP/web/EJB development download #3
Applet/Standalone app development download #4
After installing Eclipse, it takes like a half an hour before you see your code and can do anything useful with it. That needs to be reduced to 5 mins.