Eclipse is one of the most prominent Integrated Development Environment (IDEs) with base workspace to work on projects, along with extensible plugins for customizing it. Intelij IDEA and NetBeans are some of the other prominent IDEs. We pick the Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers through https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/keplersr2.
Usually, the Eclipse IDE downloads the compressed version and can be unzipped to get the eclipse
folder. Under the eclipse
directory, we can observe the executable eclipse program (eclipse.exe
), which opens the Eclipse IDE as shown in the following screenshot, making sure the Java Development Kit is installed on the machine and is available on system path.