O'Reilly Network: An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE
by Volker Weber
Before you get started on something as complex as Websphere Studio Application Developer, you may want to try Eclipse, free and open source. O'Reilly has a good jump start:
If you closely follow open source or Java programming, you may have heard some of the buzz surrounding Eclipse. Eclipse is an extensible, open source IDE (integrated development environment). The project was originally launched in November 2001, when IBM donated $40 million worth of source code from Websphere Studio Workbench and formed the Eclipse Consortium to manage the continued development of the tool.
