

The following screen capture shows the installation in Linux using an eclipse/installs/ directory. After the file has been downloaded, it should be extracted to the Eclipse installs directory. The zipped Eclipse file will be downloaded to the local file system and can be saved to a temporary location that can be deleted after Eclipse has been installed. Choose the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers.
#HOW TO INSTALL ECLIPSE PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT DOWNLOAD#
For the purposes of this guide, only a single Eclipse installation will be covered.ĭownload the current distribution of Eclipse for your OS from the Eclipse download site.


You should avoid opening the workspace from more than one installation of Eclipse. Each workspace should be used with only one Eclipse install.There may be multiple installs of Eclipse (of different or similar versions), and single instances of each install can be run simultaneously but there should never be more that one instance of a specific install running at the same time (to avoid corruption to the Eclipse environment).Once Eclipse is installed and workspaces are created, they should never be moved to another location in the file system. The directory location of the Eclipse workspaces should be chosen carefully.The following points should be kept in mind regarding Eclipse installs and workspaces:
