To be able to run any Java application, we need first to install the Java Software Development Kit or abbreviated with JDK or Java SDK. Read on to see how to setup Eclipse IDE for professional Java or JavaScript development. Meanwhile with the Photon release (4.8) eclipse has its old stability and especially performance back and makes fun again to use.

This brought eclipse already in the version 4.5 back to more stability and much more performance. The eclipse foundation therefore decided with the Mars release (4.5) to integrate a high amount of quality assurance and a community supported and integrated error reporting.

Sadly the stability and UX performance of eclipse was steadily degrading from the version 4.0 on. So Eclipse for Java became quickly famous for its flexibility. Eclipse was in the first days developed as a open source standard IDE, which is easy extendible via plugins. Eclipse is a community managed and well accepted open source integrated development environment (IDE) for many languages.

Eclipse installer