If you are going to do some serious Eclipse programming (not just using the IDE for developing your own java programs) then do not get this book unless they update it. Eclipse 3.x has some rather significant changes and this book only contains code and explanation for Eclipse 2.x. As such, the examples might not work, or worse still, might contain deprecated ways of doing things.

In fact, if you are going to do any Eclipse programming, it might be better to go online and look for some tutorials on the Eclipse website, gain some ideas and hack together something simple. Eclipse is a complicated system and you will probably need a better reference manual for it than this. Consider getting the Eclipse 3.0 FAQ’s instead once you are more comfortable with the paradigm of the Eclipse environment.