A Step By Step Guide To How To Setup Eclipse IDE On Windows?

In today’s world, Java is one of the most popular programming languages which is being used by most skilled professionals. However, using it on the command line is not feasible sometimes. Therefore, to overcome this, you can use it on Eclipse IDE. So, in this article on “How To Setup Eclipse IDE On Windows?”, I am going to discuss the following:

• • Install Java
  • Setup Eclipse IDE on Windows
  • Hello World Program

Install Java

Follow the below steps to complete your Java installation.

Step 1: Go to the Java Downloads Page and click on the option of Download.

Step 2: Once you click on Download, you will be redirected to a page, where you have to select the Accept License Agreement radio button. After that, you have to choose the download link according to your matching system configuration as below.

Here, I have chosen jdk-8u211-windows-x64.exe

Step 3: Now, once the file is downloaded, run the installer and keep clicking on Next, till you finally get a dialog box, which say, you have finished downloading.

Step 4: Once the installation is over follow the below instructions to set the path of the file.

Step 4.1: Go to start and search for ‘System’. Then, click on ‘System’ and go to Advanced System Settings. Refer below.

Step 4.2: Now, click on ‘Environment Variables’ under ‘Advanced’ tab  as shown below:

Step 4.3: Next, under System Variables choose New. 

Step 4.4: Enter the variable name as ‘JAVA_HOME’ and the full path to Java installation directory as per your system as shown below:

Step 4.5: Next thing that you have to do is to configure your environment variables. Let’s see how to do that. Here, you have to edit the path of the system variable as shown below.

Step 4.6: Under ‘Variable value’, at the end of the line, enter the path of the folder. Now, you can click ‘OK’ and you are done.

Now to cross-check the installation, just run following command in cmd – java -version. It should display the installed version of Java in your system.

Install Eclipse

Follow the below steps to configure Eclipse on your system:

Step 1: Navigate to the following URL – https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ and select the download link depending on your system architecture – (Windows, Mac OS or Linux) and download it.

Step 2: Once the download is over, extract the zipped file by right-clicking on the folder and choose Extract All. Refer below.

Step 3: You will be then redirected to a dialog box, where you have to choose the directory in which you wish to extract the files. Then click on Extract. Refer below.

Step 4: After extracting files, open the folder and launch eclipse.exe.

Step 5: Then, you have to choose the Launch directory for Eclipse and then click on Launch. Refer below.

Once Eclipse launches, you will see the below window:

Hello World Program

Step 1: Launch Eclipse IDE and go to File ->New -> Java Project

Step 2: Mention the project name and click on Finish.

Step 3: Now, go to the Project, Right-Click on the Project and choose Package. In the dialog box, which opens up, mention the Package name as below and click on Finish.

Step 4: Now, right click on the Package, go to New and choose Class. Mention the class name and click on Finish. Refer below.

Step 5: Now, mention the following code in the workspace.

package Edureka;

public class helloworld {
public static void main(String args[]){
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}

Step 6: Now, execute your file, by right-clicking on the helloworld.java file and choose Run As -> Java Application.

You will see Hello World printed on the console.

This brings us to the end of this ‘How To Setup Eclipse IDE On Windows’ article. We have learned how to set up Java & Eclipse on Windows.

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