Eclipse is a fantastic IDE but some may prefer the light weight Programmer's Notepad. This post will show you how easy development for LPC1768 on a Windows box using CodeSourcery g++ Lite and Programmers notepad is.
The cortex-m3 core which the LPC1768 uses has an extremely flexible interrupt controller called the NVIC (Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller). The NVIC has several distinguishing features.