Question:

I understand that the isCOBOL IDE is based on Eclipse. I guess I had better get up to speed on using Eclipse. What would be a good resource for that? Can you recommend a book?

Answer:

Veryant's documentation includes a comprehensive book for our IDE, and you should be able to find most of what you need there.

There are some books about Eclipse available on popular book sites, but the ones I saw were for much older versions of Eclipse.
The most up-to-date documentation, training and tutorials for Eclipse are available on the web at http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/ and http://www.eclipse.org/resources/

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