Welcome to onEclipse! "onEclipse" is a website devoted to improving the productivity of users of the Eclipse platform. Since the introduction of Eclipse in 2002, the platform has continued to amaze developers in its revolutionary capabilities. Not a day goes by without a new feature, new plugin, new tip or new trick being revealed.

The pace of new developments is so rapid that it just takes a bewildering amount of time just to keep up. That's what this site is for, it's a site for you to keep abreast of developments.

But keeping informed is not worth much if you can't be productive. I'm sure that there are a lot of news about Eclipse that are worthy of one's attention. However, the question you have to ask yourself is whether this extra piece of information is going to help you improve or will it merely clutter your brain with additional trivia.

This is precisely what differentiates this site from every other Eclipse-based site. The site is designed to reduce clutter and to get you to learn features as quickly and painlessly as possible. After all, we all have a job to do, and sometimes it truly helps if someone could just package everything in an easy to digest bundle.

So going forward into the future, we will be offering more visual tutorials covering more aspects of the Eclipse platform. These will include coverage for Eclipse 3.x releases, coverage for IBM Websphere Studio and Rational XDE. In addition, we will be reviewing some choice plugins and possibly even creating our own tutorials for them, too.

Right now we have a comprehensive visual eclipse tutorial. The product is called Essential Eclipse - The Visual Tutorial. Over time, we will be improving its presentation and adding more topics. Make sure you subscribe to this educational resource.

In addition, we are also building up our list of available Eclipse plugins. We are still mulling over how we'll differentiate our content, but the prevailing consensus is that we should provide visual demonstrations so you can see the plugin without wasting time testing it out yourself.

Regards,

onEclipse Administrator