Java & Eclipse Platform Oulu, Spring 2005 The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments (IDEs) that can be used to create applications as diverse as web sites, embedded Java programs, C++ programs, and Enterprise JavaBeans. In this tutorial we will show the (very) basic functionality of this program, which is call “The Platform” when talking about Java Developing Tools. Visit www.eclipse.org for further information. Eclipse is released open source software license, so you can download for free from its website: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php. To install it, we need a Java Virtual Machine, avaliable in: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

We select JRE 5.0 Update 1 for our platform, now we are ready to download Eclipse and the Visual Editor:
http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-3.0.1-200409161125/index.php
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ve/downloads/ Remember to install also the required plugins to run Visual Editor: Java Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Model Runtime and GEF Runtime. To install the Java VM, click on the installer and follow the steps, for Eclipse and the VE:

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