June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
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1.2. Installing and Running Eclipse
Problem
You want to install Eclipse and get it running on your machine.
Solution
After you’ve downloaded it, installing Eclipse is not hard: unzip or untar the Eclipse download, and you’re ready to go. Because you’ve downloaded the version of Eclipse targeted to your operating system, you’ll find the executable file as soon as you uncompress Eclipse. To run Eclipse, just run that executable file.
Discussion
One of the great things about Eclipse is the ease with which you can
install it. Wherever you unzip or untar it is its home. You also can
have parallel installations of Eclipse; just decompress it in the
various directories you want and run the executable file, such as
eclipse.exe.
Users of big, invasive IDEs will appreciate the fact that Eclipse installs quickly, does not require multiple reboots, and does not include hidden spyware. Windows developers will be relieved to learn that Eclipse does not install itself in the Windows registry, with all the attendant problems that can cause. So, (re)installation is painless.
When you first run Eclipse, you’ll see
the
Resource perspective by default, as shown in
Figure 1-2. As discussed in the Recipe 1.6 later in
this chapter, a perspective presents an arrangement of windows to the user. If you open a particular perspective over and over, you’ll always get the same set of windows. The Resource perspective is a general perspective that is good for resource management, particularly file handling. But ...
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