Get started now with Eclipse

New to Eclipse? This is an excellent article from IBM/DeveloperWorks:

"Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. This article gives you links to the latest version of Eclipse, information on IBM's involvement with Eclipse, and a guide to some of the most interesting Eclipse projects. Learn what Eclipse is good for, why it is important, how you can get started, and where to learn more about it."

Main topics:

• What is Eclipse?
• What Eclipse is good for?
• Why is Eclipse important?
• What does IBM have to do with Eclipse?
• What are the Eclipse communities?
• Why should I contribute to Eclipse?
• How can I become an Eclipse committer?
• What should I know about using or contributing to Eclipse?
• What are some Eclipse's interesting projects?
• Who wrote this guide?