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Eclipse First Project Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that you already have a workbench setup and have applied any settings file(s) to that workbench. This tutorial goes through the steps to create a new project, to create java source code files within that project, to edit the source, to compile the source, and to run the resulting bytecode.

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Eclipse First Project Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that you already have a workbench setup and have applied any settings file(s) to that workbench. This tutorial goes through the steps to create a new project, to create java source code files within that project, to edit the source, to compile the source, and to run the resulting bytecode.

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Using Eclipse
Eclipse organizes code with what is called a Workbench or sometimes a Workspace. Within a workbench, multiple Projects are created. Each project is made up of source and build folders. This tutorial assumes that you already have a workbench setup and have applied any settings file(s) to that workbench. This tutorial goes through the steps to create a new project, to create Java source code files within that project, to edit the source, to compile the source, and to run the resulting bytecode. Create a Project Go into File/New and select Project.

Select "Java Project" (figure 1) and then press Next . For the "Project Name", type HelloEclipse, leaving the other settings as-is (figure 2), then press Next.

Figure 1

Figure 2

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Source tabno changes. Note that Java source code files will be in the src/java subfolder. Note that the compiled class files will be under the
build/eclipse/classes

subfolder.

Projects tabno changes.

Libraries tabno changes. This is where user-defined libraries are specified in more complex projects.

Order and Export tabno changes.

Press Finish to complete the project setup wizard.

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Create a Class Right-click on the src/java folder and then select New/Class.

Enter the package name:


com.abc.hello

Enter the classname:


HelloEclipseWorld

Press Finish.

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Edit the Java Source File Type in the contents of the source file. If you want to, you can use existing code templates and Content Assist to help write the code. In this case, type main, then Ctrl+Space to activate Content Assist. Select the first item (main main method) to have the main method written for you from a template. Next, type sysout, then Ctrl+Space to activate Content Assist. Select the first item (sysout print to stdout) to have System.out.println(); written for you from a template. To see more of the templates that are available, go to Windows/Preferences. Then go into Java/Editor/Templates. You can also create your own templates to expand the power! The completed contents of HelloEclipseWorld.java should be:
package com.abc.hello; public class HelloEclipseWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello Eclipse World!!!"); } }

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Compilation To compile your Eclipse project, use Ctrl+B (menus: Project/Build All). Any compilation problems will show up in the Problems tab at the bottom of the screen. Double-clicking on a problem will open the associated file and jump to the offending line of code.

When on the line with the error, the code can be manually corrected or the Quick Fix feature can be used to make suggestions by pressing Ctrl+1 (menus: Edit/Quick Fix). Using Quick Fix, select the second suggestion to correct the code:

Running the Java Application For the first run, you need to let Eclipse know which of your classes should be used as the starting point (the class with the main method). Right-click on the classname, select Run/Java Application. For subsequent runs, simply press Ctrl+F11 (menus: Run/Run Last Launched). This step automatically: Saves all modified files (prompted), Compiles modified source files, and Runs the application.

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