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: