Comments on: Embedded Linux Development Using Eclipse

By: Pahkakino

Pahkakino — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:46:44 +0000

This book is one of the most useful books I have ever purchased. It takes you through all necessary steps to install and operate the Eclipse IDE for those using the ‘C’ programming language on embedded controllers. Highly recommended!

By: Ottavia

Ottavia — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:13:44 +0000

The first half of the book is about general introduction. After a quick background briefing of Eclipse, author gives detailed step to step installation guide. A walk through menu introduces functionalities for basic operations with ample screenshots illustrating the steps which are easy to follow. In addition, a demo project is used to show some more features of project and debug environment. The second half of the book targets embedded developers with introduction of device software development platform and some advanced features such as Plug-In, UML, and CVS, which covers interests beyond embedded c code development. In the end, this book has a quick browse of some Eclipse based products from several vendors. Overall, if you are a non-java developer looking for an introductory book on Eclipse, this is a good choice for you. If you expect more, you probably have to search online starting with eclipse. org.

By: Denver

Denver — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:11:38 +0000

Eclipse has grown significantly over the past years. It is actually a fairly decent code editor now. However, if you just follow the contents of this book, it will not grow beyond that – just an editor. And there are far better C/C++ editors than Eclipse. In my experience, most people who develop for embedded Linux do not use Eclipse at all, unless they need to use specific plug-ins (as provided by the commercial Linux vendors – discussed at the end of the book). I think that if you are just an application developer, you won’t start using Eclipse after reading this book – you’ll stick to what you are used to. If you are a kernel developer, you have no reason to switch to Eclipse. If you are a systems designer that needs to keep a group of application developers within your company happy by providing them with an IDE – this book might be for you. How many of you are there?