Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows based systems. -www.eclipse.org Eclipse is a free, open source, platform-independent software framework. This framework has been used to develop an IDE for Java.

Download and Installation Eclipse can be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads. This link automatically detects your OS and provides the latest release of Eclipse for your platform (You can also browse other builds by clicking on ‘All Versions’). Choose a mirror and save the zip file. Eclipse comes as a zipped dump rather than an installation. All you need to do is just unzip it to a preferred location and you can start using it. If you are using Linux, you need to append this location to you path. You can add this line below to .bashrc file in your home to open Eclipse from shell.

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