Iulian Dogariu

It’s never too late to read introductory books on Eclipse. More specifically, this book. You may be missing out on some pretty cool features. For example, how could I miss out on something as useful as the Scrapbook?

Essentially a Scrapbook page in Eclipse allows you to type code and execute on the fly. You don’t need to create a function or even a class. This is really sweet if you want to try out something quick and dirty, before incorporating it into your code. In this respect, it resembles the REPL of LISP or Ruby or Perl. Plus you get most of the benefits of the Java editor, such as code completion

To create a scrapbook page in Eclipse 3.2, go to File->New->Other… then choose Java -> Run/Debug -> Scrapbook page.