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Installing the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE)

To develop an application that uses Diffusion™, you can install the Eclipse™ IDE on your development system.

You must have Java™ installed on your system to use Eclipse. We recommend Java HotSpot™ Development Kit 8 (latest update). This can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/downloads/index.html.

You can use other Java development tools, but the Diffusion tooling for Eclipse makes it easy to create an application. We recommend you use Eclipse version Kepler or later for Java EE Developers until you are familiar with the structure of a Diffusion application.

To install Eclipse, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to the Eclipse download page:
  2. Click the download link appropriate to your operating system.
  3. When you are prompted, save the Eclipse .zip file to your local system.
  4. Extract the contents of the downloaded file into the folder where you want Eclipse to be installed.
    For example, C:\Program Files\eclipse.
  5. Start Eclipse by double-clicking the executable file in the top-level Eclipse folder.
    • On Windows™, this file is eclipse.exe
    • On Linux, this file is eclipse.sh
    • On MacOS, this file is eclipse.app
You have successfully downloaded and installed the Eclipse IDE.