Transcript Starting Eclipse

Starting Eclipse
Just the basics
7-Apr-16
Getting Eclipse
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If you Google for “Eclipse”:
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Click on the download link
 You will get a zip file; unzip it
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The first hit is the home page, http://www.eclipse.org/
The second hit is “Eclipse Downloads,”
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
The current version (Nov. 28, 2005) is Eclipse SDK 3.1.1
No further “installation” is necessary (assuming your Java is installed
correctly)
Run the eclipse.exe file
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You will be asked to choose a folder for a “workspace” (mine is called
workspace); do so
No further configuration is necessary
The Welcome screen
go to the workbench
overview
tutorials
samples
what’s
new
The Java “perspective”
Projects in the workspace
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In Eclipse, as in BlueJ, classes are organized into
projects (complete programs)
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Each project is kept in a folder
Eclipse projects are kept in a workspace, which is just a
folder containing project folders
When you first start Eclipse, you will be asked to
choose a workspace (folder)
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You can set this as default, so you use the same workspace
every time
You can tell Eclipse to ask you for the workspace each time it
starts up
Starting a new project
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Choose File  New  Project...  Java Project
and give your new project a name
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Choose File  New  Class and give your new class
a name
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This will also be the name of the folder that is created in the
workspace
You can also check the box that asks Eclipse to generate a
main method for you
Start editing!
Compiling and running
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You don’t compile your program; Eclipse does that
automatically as you type
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It also points out errors as you go along
The first time you run your program, choose Run 
Run As...  Java Application
After that, you can just click the green circle with a
triangle in it
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Or, you can use the drop-down list to the right of the green
circle to choose a particular program to run
Importing projects
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If you have a program that you created outside Eclipse,
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Create a folder for it in your workspace
Move your Java files to that folder
Choose File  New  Project...  Java Project and
type in the name of your new folder
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Eclipse will recognize it and ask if you want to make the folder into a
new project; just click Finish
Tips
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Double-clicking a tab expands that area to the full size
of the window; double-clicking it again brings it back to
normal
Explore the menus! There’s a lot of great stuff there
The End