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• 1.1 How to Create a Java Project ( Duration - 1:18)
• 1.2 How to Create a Java Class ( Duration - 1:36)
• 1.3 Creating and Running a 'Hello World! ( Duration - 1:24)
• 1.4 How to Debug a Java Program ( Duration - 1:21) [watch and learn]

• 2.1 How to Manage Multiple Editors ( Duration - 1:23)
• 2.2 How to Show Different Views in a Perspective ( Duration - 0:48)
• 2.3 How to Rearrange Views and Toolbars in a Perspective ( Duration - 1:59) [watch, listen and learn]
• 2.4 How to Access Any Project Resource ( Duration - 0:41)
• 2.5 How to Maximize Views and Editors ( Duration - 0:45)
• 2.6 How to Go Back to a Previous Access or Edit Location ( Duration - 1:08)
• 2.7 How to Link an Editor to a View ( Duration - 0:19)
• 2.8 How to Navigate Between an Editor and a View ( Duration - 0:41)
• 2.9 How to Create Custom Shortcuts ( Duration - 1:14)
• 2.10 How to Quickly Import Files and Folders ( Duration - 1:37)
• 2.11 How to Create Linked Resources ( Duration - 2:05)
• 2.12 How to Display Line Numbers ( Duration - 0:42)
• 2.13 How to Quickly Close Editors Except those Selected ( Duration - 1:38)
• 2.14 How to Manage Editors ( Duration - 1:19)
• 2.15 How to Use Fast Views ( Duration - 1:10)
• 2.16 How to Acivate Key Binding Assistance ( Duration - 1:00)
• 2.17 How to Detach and Minimize Views ( Duration - 1:03)
• 2.18 How to Quickly Navigate between Views, Editors or Perspectives ( Duration - 1:18)

• 3.1 How to Create a Working Set ( Duration - 0:57)
• 3.2 How to Create a Project Outside the Workspace Folder ( Duration - 0:47)
• 3.3 How to Create a Custom Task Tag ( Duration - 2:34)
• 3.4 How to Place a Bookmark ( Duration - 1:22)
• 3.5 How to Create a Fast View ( Duration - 0:54)
• 3.6 How to Recover a Deleted File ( Duration - 0:38)
• 3.7 How to Change the Menu and Toolbars of a Perspective ( Duration - 0:42)
• 3.8 How to Restore a Perspective to its Original Form ( Duration - 0:39)
• 3.9 How to Create a Custom Perspective ( Duration - 1:16)
• 3.10 How to Export and Import the Preferences ( Duration - 1:22)
• 3.11 How to Define and Use Classpath Variables ( Duration - 2:02)
• 3.12 How to Create JavaDoc Comments ( Duration - 1:38)
• 3.13 How to Hide JAR Files in the Package Explorer ( Duration - 0:38)
• 3.14 How to Switch Workspaces without a Shutdown ( Duration - 0:32)
• 3.15 How to Manage User Defined Libraries ( Duration - 2:25)
• 3.16 How to Use Different Annotation Styles ( Duration - 0:49)
• 3.17 How to Open External Files ( Duration - 0:20)
• 3.18 How to Generate JavaDoc ( Duration - 2:01)

• 4.1 How to Create Scrapbook Pages and Run Code Snippets ( Duration - 1:11)
• 4.2 How to Use Code Completion ( Duration - 1:09)
• 4.3 How to fix Syntax Errors Automatically ( Duration - 1:33)
• 4.4 How to Quickly Generate Inherited Methods ( Duration - 0:30)
• 4.5 How to Get Hints for Method Parameters ( Duration - 0:33)
• 4.6 How to Quickly Create Getter and Setter Methods ( Duration - 0:40)
• 4.7 How to Quickly Surround Code with a try/catch Block ( Duration - 0:28)
• 4.8 How to Find a Matching Brace ( Duration - :16)
• 4.9 How to Quickly Create a Constructor ( Duration - 0:20)
• 4.10 How to Comment Out a Section of Code ( Duration - 0:58)
• 4.11 How to Manage Source Code Format Style ( Duration - 1:12)
• 4.12 How to Use Code Generation Templates ( Duration - 2:16)
• 4.13 How to Find a Class from its Name ( Duration - 0:51)
• 4.14 How to Find a Class in a Hierarchy ( Duration - 0:44)[watch and learn]
• 4.15 How to Attach Source Code to Imported Libraries ( Duration - 1:36)
• 4.16 How to Navigate Code Using Keyboard Shortcuts ( Duration - 0:54)
• 4.17 How to View Abbreviated Package Names ( Duration - 0:41)
• 4.18 How to Format Multiple Files ( Duration - 0:21)
• 4.19 How to Use Declaration and JavaDoc Views ( Duration - 1:16)
• 4.20 How to View a Call Hierarchy ( Duration - 1:15)
• 4.21 How to View a Type in a Hierarchy ( Duration - 0:15)
• 4.22 How to Mark Occurrences ( Duration - 1:17)
• 4.23 How to Surround Code with an if/while/for/do block ( Duration - 1:03)
• 4.24 How to Use Linked Mode Quick Fixes ( Duration - 1:14)

• 5.1 How to Start a Debug Session ( Duration - 1:26)
• 5.2 How to Step Through Code ( Duration - 1:57)
• 5.3 How to Add a Breakpoint ( Duration - 0:54)
• 5.4 Different Ways to Set a Breakpoint ( Duration - 0:48)
• 5.5 How to Debug to a Line of Code ( Duration - 1:03)
• 5.6 How to Watch and Inspect Variables ( Duration - 2:01)
• 5.7 How to Set a Hit Count for Breakpoints ( Duration - 1:52)
• 5.8 How to Break on Different Conditions ( Duration - 1:09)
• 5.9 How to Break when a Field, Method or Exception is Used ( Duration - 2:04)
• 5.10 How to Evaluate Arbitrary Expressions while Debugging ( Duration - 1:39)
• 5.11 How to Assign Values to Variables While Debugging ( Duration - 1:17)
• 5.12 How to Change Source while in a Debugging Session ( Duration - 1:31)
• 5.13 How to Create a JUnit TestCase ( Duration - 1:54)
• 5.14 How to Unit Test using JUnit ( Duration - 2:27)
• 5.15 How to Use Watch Points ( Duration - 1:08)
• 5.16 How to Work with Debug Frames ( Duration - 2:32)
• 5.17 How to Prevent the Debugger from Stepping into Utility Code ( Duration - 1:11)
• 5.18 How to Use Evaluation Popups ( Duration - 0:46)
• 5.19 How to Highlight Lines in Execution ( Duration - 0:45)
• 5.20 How to Use Detail Formatters when Debugging ( Duration - 1:27)
• 5.21 How to Use Filtering for Step Functions ( Duration - 1:40)

• 6.1 How to Rename Elements ( Duration - 1:50)
• 6.2 How to Move Elements ( Duration - 0:59)
• 6.3 How to Extract an Interface from a Class ( Duration - 1:17)
• 6.4 How to Search Code ( Duration - 1:27)
• 6.5 How to Compare Files ( Duration - 2:19)
• 6.6 How to Compare and Replace Code against Previously Saved Code ( Duration - 1:28)
• 6.7 How to Restore Elements from Local History ( Duration - 0:45)
• 6.8 How to Run Java Programs in Different Configurations ( Duration - 3:26)
• 6.9 How to Filter and Sort on Search ( Duration - 0:56)
• 6.10 How to Use QuickDiff ( Duration - 1:36)
• 6.11 How to Use Regular Expressions to Search and Replace Text ( Duration - 2:48)
• 6.12 How to Refactor Code with File Search ( Duration - 2:10)

• 7.1 How to Connect to a CVS Repository ( Duration - 1:24)
• 7.2 How to Store an Eclipse Project in a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:43)
• 7.3 How to Commit Files to a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:54)
• 7.4 How to Visually Mark Files in Version Control ( Duration - 0:49)
• 7.5 How to Examine a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:50)
• 7.6 How to Retrieve a Revision from the Repository History ( Duration - 0:55)
• 7.7 How to Check Out Projects from a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:48)
• 7.8 How to Update from a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:35)
• 7.9 How to Synchronize Code with the CVS Repository ( Duration - 1:22)
• 7.10 How to Create and Apply Patches ( Duration - 1:43)
• 7.11 How to Create and Retrieve Versions ( Duration - 1:15)
• 7.12 How to Create and Merge CVS Branches ( Duration - 1:37)
• 7.13 How to Use CVS Console ( Duration - 0:39)
• 7.14 How to Use the CVS Ignore Facility ( Duration - 0:56)
• 7.15 How to Disconnect from and Reconnect to a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:36)
• 7.16 How to Practically Use CVS in Teams ( Duration - 2:20)

• 8.1 How to Setup a Web Server Runtime ( Duration - 2:25)
• 8.2 How to Create a J2EE Web Project with a Web Module ( Duration - 0:54)
• 8.3 How to Setup a Project's Web Server ( Duration - 1:26)
• 8.4 How to Create and Register a Servlet ( Duration - 1:43)
• 8.5 How to Create and Edit a JSP ( Duration - 1:12)
• 8.6 How to Start and Stop a Web Server ( Duration - 1:04)
• 8.7 How to Run a Web Application ( Duration - 0:53)
• 8.8 How to Monitor HTTP Traffic ( Duration - 1:09)
• 8.9 How to Debug a JSP ( Duration - 1:31)
• 8.10 How to Debug a Servlet ( Duration - 1:30)
• 8.11 How to Use the HTML Editor ( Duration - 6:47)
• 8.12 How to Use the CSS Editor( Duration - 2:37)
• 8.13 How to Use the JavaScript Editor ( Duration - 2:58)

• 9.1 How to Create a Visual Class ( Duration - 1:00)
• 9.2 How to Edit a Swing Class with the Visual Editor ( Duration - 1:36)
• 9.3 How to Layout Using the Java Beans and Properties View ( Duration - 1:09)
• 9.4 How to Create a User Interface ( Duration - 2:10)
• 9.5 How to Run a Visual Class ( Duration - 1:44)
• 9.6 How to Use the Palette View ( Duration - 3:41)
• 9.7 How to Navigate Between Visual and Source Editors ( Duration - 1:44)
• 9.8 How to Use the Layout Customization Window ( Duration - 1:26)

• 10.1 How to Compare Changes in XML ( Duration - 1:25)
• 10.2 How to Rename XML Elements ( Duration - 0:40)
• 10.3 How to Use Quick Assist in XML ( Duration - 1:55)
• 10.4 How to Use Quick Fixes for XML ( Duration - 1:14)
• 10.5 How to Edit an XML Schema ( Duration - 2:08)
• 10.6 How to Generate XML from a Schema ( Duration - 0:37)
• 10.7 How to Use Task Tags in XML ( Duration - 1:24)

• Getting a CVS Server ( Duration - 0:57)
• Creating a CVS Repository ( Duration - 0:51)
• A Quick QuickFix Demo ( Duration - 2:58)
• Importing an Open Source Project ( Duration - 1:45)
• Navigating Source Code ( Duration - 1:52)
• Test Driven Development ( Duration - 3:23)
• Debugging a Web Service ( Duration - 3:03)

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