By Rajanikanth B www.btechsmartclass.com Eclipse IDE Overview By Rajanikanth B www.btechsmartclass.com

What is IDE? IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. A Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a software which enables users to write and debug Java programs easily. Many IDEs provide features like syntax highlighting, code completion, etc., thus helping the user to code easily.

What is Eclipse IDE? Eclipse is a Free and Open Source IDE The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers contains what you need to build Java applications.  Considered by many to be the best Java development tool available.  The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers provides superior Java editing with validation, incremental compilation, cross-referencing, code assist…

Why Eclipse? (Features) Standard window management (perspectives, views, browsers, explorers, ...) Error checking as you type (immediate error indications, ...) Help window as toy type (type ., or <ctrl> space, ...) Automatic build (changes in source code are automatically compiled, ...) Built-in debugger (full featured GUI debugger) Source code generation (getters and setters, ...) Searches (for implementation, for references, ...) Code refactoring (global reference update, ...) Plugin-based architecture (ability to build tools that integrate seamlessly with the environment, and some other tools) ...

How to Install Eclipse? Download Eclipse IDE from following web link http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Downloads as a .rar file Extract the .rar file Copy the extracted folder to “c:\Program Files\” folder Open that folder Create short cut of “Eclipse.exe” Copy the shortcut on to the desktop

How to start Eclipse? Double click on the “Eclipse” shortcut on the Desktop

How to work with Eclipse?

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