Getting started

1.1. Installation

Download "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" from the website Eclipse Downloads and unpack it to a directory. This is sufficient for Eclipse to be used; no additional installation procedure is required.

Tip

Use a directory path which does not contain spaces in its name.

Tip

Eclipse requires an installed Java Runtime. I recommended to use Java 6 (also known as Java 1.6).

1.2. Start Eclipse

To start Eclipse double-click on the file eclipse.exe in your installation directory.

The system will prompt you for a workspace. The workspace is the place there you store your Java projects (more on workspaces later). Select a suitable (empty) directory and press Ok.

Eclipse will start and show the Welcome page.

Close the welcome page by press in little x besides the Welcome.