ECE355 - Preparation Phase

Eclipse

Instructor: Kostas Kontogiannis

Purpose

The goal of this task is to introduce you to Eclipse, in particular to the java development tools(JDT) and the mechanisms which support working with projects shared via CVS.

Where to go for information

Eclipse Online Tutorials and Help.

If you are new to Eclipse, it is strongly recomemended that you go through the following Tutorials if you use Java and decided to use Eclipse:

Java Development
Sample application that prints "Hello World!"
You can find this tutorial under the "Help" menu, Welcome option.
Basic Tutorial
You can find this at the Workbench User Guide.
Team CVS Tutorial
You can find this at the Workbench User Guide.

Running Eclipse

You can run Eclipse from the NEXUS (Windows 2000,XP) machines in the labs, or you can install Eclipse on your Windows/Linux home machine.

Eclipse 3.0 can be downloaded from from www.eclipse.org. You will also need to install the 1.4.2 Java 2 Standard Edition JRE. The JRE is not included in the Eclipse install.

In the NEXUS environment, Eclipse 3.0 is found on C:\software\eng\ece