Eclipse includes a built-in Help system which provides extensive documentation for each integrated feature and tool. This greatly decreases the initial time investment required for new developers to become fluent in its use. The use of this Help section is detailed in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Guide linked below.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Developer Guide — The Developer Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides more information on Eclipse, including a description of the user interface, overview of available development toolkits, or instructions on how to use it to build RPM packages.

Section A.1, “Changes in Eclipse” provides a comprehensive list of features and improvements over the Eclipse development environment included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the previous release of Red Hat Developer Toolset.

Chapter 1, Red Hat Developer Toolset provides an overview of Red Hat Developer Toolset and more information on how to install it on your system.

Chapter 3, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) provides information on how to compile programs written in C, C++, and Fortran on the command line.