RE: [eclipse-dev] Newbie question - repost

["Tam, Aharon" <a.tam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Neil,

I have tried to send you an email. I doubt you have received it.
It seems that Eclipse is a tool to extend and customize IDE.
80% of the documentation deals with Plug-ins. That is strange because
I don't understand the philosophy of this tool. Myself I an interested
In building applications (console or gui) nothing else.

I am new the Eclipse and I am trying to compare it to NetBeans.
I installed NetBeans 3.5.1 and I have some problem with it as well.
Do you have any book to recommend using NetBeans?

Thanks in advance,
Aharon Tam


-----Original Message-----
From: Neil B. Cohen [mailto:nbc@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:05 AM
To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse-dev] Newbie question - repost

** This may be a duplicate - I sent it once before I realized I had to
subscribe to the mailing list... 

Hi,

I'm just starting to look at Eclipse. This is probably the wrong place
for this question - please re-direct me if necessary...

I've been using NetBeans to develop Java GUI applications for several
years. I've just started looking at Eclipse. I can see how it can be
used to manage text files, and Web Server applications - but I don't see
any tools or plugins that will let me build a stand-alone GUI
application - as I would be able to do with NetBeans. Am I missing
something obvious? Is there a GUI-builder tool or plugin for Eclipse or
is it really designed for the server side of the system?

Any information or pointers to relevant documentation would be
appreciated. I've installed Eclipse on my machine and I've been working
through some tutorials and various parts of the documentation, but I
have not found what I'm looking for yet...

Thanks very much,

nbc
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DOMAIN: nbc@xxxxxxxxx
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