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 Eclipse). The first time you run Eclipse, you will be asked to specify a workspace. Create a new folder in your filesystem and select that as the initial workspace folder. If you intend to use the same folder for the workspace on every launch of Eclipse, then check the Use this as the default and do not ask again checkbox:

Figure 1.5: Select Eclipse workspace

You will then see the default Java EE perspective of Eclipse as shown in Figure 1.2.