Installing Eclipse
Eclipse is the most popular environment for developing Java Enterprise applications. You can explore the Eclipse universe at www.eclipse.org.
The download area is reachable at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
As you can see, there are several distributions available—what we suggest for your best programming experience is the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. This will cost your hard disk a bit more in terms of space, but your productivity will benefit a lot from it.
Now choose the distribution that's appropriate for your OS. Once the download is complete, Windows users can simply unzip the eclipse-jee-galileo-win32.zip
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