Setup Eclipse IDE.
Created: 31 March 2022 Modified:Opinionated directions on how to setup Eclipse IDE. Eclipse downloads can be found on the Eclipse.org site.
- Install Eclipse
- Click menu item Windows -> Preferences
- Uncheck General -> Workspace -> Build -> Build Automatically
- Set Java -> Compiler -> Compiler compliance level to 1.8
- Set Java -> Installed JREs to point to 1.8 JRE. Example: C:\Program Files\Amazon Corretto\jdk1.8.0_342\jre
- Make sure Java -> Installed JREs -> Execution Environments -> JavaSE-1.8 has jdk1.8.0 selected.
- Click General -> Appearance option in left pane. Right pane Theme dropdown select Dark.
- Click General -> Appearance -> Fonts and Colors option in left pane. Right pane list box choose Basic -> Text Font. Right pane click Edit button. Choose font size and family.
- Click General -> Editors -> Text Editors option in left pane. Right pane enter tab size 4 and click Insert spaces for tabs checkbox
- Click Apply and Close
- Click menu item Windows -> Preferences