Eclipse IDE Editing Source Trips & Tricks

 

Eclipse IDE Productivity Tips & Tricks – Editing Source:

Okay, we might know about few or most of these from everywhere, also might already have this list handy as this comes straight out of Eclipse help tutorial. But I am posting here so that this can be available anytime on the move. The following tips and tricks give some helpful ideas for increasing productivity while working on Eclipse IDE. These tips & tricks can be grouped into 7 main categories namely:

1. Editing
2. Refactoring
3. Navigation
4. Searching
5. Views
6. Miscellaneous
7. Debugging

This post has Editing Source Tips & Tricks. Refer to posts in Eclipse Tips & Tricks for others.

Developing & Testing a program in Java

 

 

Module 3: Developing & Testing a Java Technology program.

 

Objectives:

1. Identify  4 components of class.
2. Use main method in a test class to run a java program from command line.
3. Compile & execute a java program.

 

1. Identify  4 components of class:

Going back to what we discussed before about classes, to construct a house you will first need a blueprint. Same thing applies for classes & objects. Similarly once you have a class blueprint, you  can have as many objects of that class as u like. These objects are called instances of a class. i.e., a shirt object is an instance of a shirt class.

 

 

Lets take a look at our first class:

Class is a blueprint that tells the computer how to make objects. This class blueprint – Shirt, tells the computer how to make Shirt objects.

 

 

 

Structuring classes:

There are 4 major components of class that you will find more often:

• class declaration – required
• attribute variable declaration & initialization – optional
• methods – optional
• comments – optional

1. Class declaration is required, and this is all that you need to make a class valid. If all you had was this, then the class and its objects would be uninteresting serving no purpose. You will be needing some attributes and operations to jazz up the object.

2. Variables are characterstics of your objects. As we discussed in previous posts, these are characterstics /  properties and they are also data holders. They hold the data for the object.

3. In this Shirt class, only one method is defined. Methods are operations. They tell the class what to do.  Its what the class can do.  This method is printing all its information to the command window.

4. Comments are for developers to understand what the code is doing, they dont influence the execution in anyway.

 

Class declaration: