It is robust, feature-rich, easy-to-use and powerful IDE which is the #1 choice of almost Java programmers in the world. will see the download page like this: You can install Eclipse either by downloading the Eclipse Installer or package (zip file).Ĭlick the following link to download Eclipse: And it is totally FREE.As of now (fall 2016), the latest release of Eclipse is Neon (version 4.6). I’d recommend you to download by package. Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers: This is for developing Java EE applications (web applications using Servlets & JSP).įor Java, there are two main packages listed as you see above: Eclipse comes with various packages for different development purposes.

Eclipse IDE for Java Developers: This is for developing Java SE applications, a subset of the Java EE Developer package.

So I recommend you to install the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers package because sooner or later you will need to build Java web applications, although this tutorial only shows you how to write a Java console application.Click on the link 32-bit or 64-bit (depending on the bit version of your operating system) to start download the package. You will see the package name like this: eclipse-jee-neon-R-win32-x86_64.zipExtract this ZIP file into a directory on your computer.

You will see a directory called eclipse containing Eclipse’s installed files: Eclipse Neon requires Java 8 or newer so make sure you have JDK 8 already installed on your computer.

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