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Installing Eclipse

Download the latest version of Eclipse from https://eclipse.org/downloads/. You will see many different packages for Eclipse. Make sure you install the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers package. Select an appropriate package based on your OS and JVM architecture (32 or 64 bit). You may want to run the command java -version to know whether the JVM is 32-bit or 64-bit.

If you plan to use Eclipse for AWS development, then it is recommended to download Eclipse from the Oomph installer. Refer to https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Installer and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/toolkit-for-eclipse/v1/user-guide/setup-install.html.

Unzip the downloaded ZIP file and then run the Eclipse application (you must install JDK before you run ...

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