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Next : Creating a project

Starting Eclipse

For the purposes of the tutorial, I'm going to set up a project called javatools-demo.

First start up Eclipse and supply a path to a new folder which will serve as your workspace. The workspace is a folder which Eclipse uses to store your source code.

Avoid checking the "Use this as the default..." box, which will always start up Eclipse with the same workspace. You'll probably find it useful to be able to switch between different workspaces on startup.

When Eclipse starts, you'll see the Welcome page:

Getting help

Note that you can access Eclipse help at any time via Help->Help Contents. This is the same as the help on the eclipse.org website.