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/.

Installing Eclipse

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, while ...

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