hello, this is chad (shod) with luv2code.com.in this video, i’m going to show you how to install eclipse on your computer. we’llactually cover the system requirements for eclipse. i’ll show you how to download eclipsethen from there how to install it and then finally how to verify your installation. in regards to system requirements, you musthave the jave jdk installed in your computer. you can download this from oracle websiteat oracle.com/java. there is also plenty of videos on youtube and so once you are on youtube,you simply search for how to install java jdk and they will help you out with all ofthose details. okay, let’s go ahead and get started withinstalling eclipse. the first thing we have

to do is download eclipse and you can downloadit from eclipse website at eclipse.org. on my browser, i’ll type in eclipse.org, okayand this will take you to the eclipse main web page and once you are on this web pageover on the right hand side there is a link called download, you select download and thiswill take you to the actual downloads page. this will show you all the downloads thatare available for your operating system. currently i’m using a macintosh, it willshow me a list of options for a mac. the one that we want to select here is eclipse idefor java developers, okay. that is the one you want to download and that’s what wewill use in this video for actually developing applications. i’ll go ahead and select eclipseide for java developers for mac osx 64 bit

and it will go through the process of actuallystarting the download and you hit download and it will go through the normal process,okay. this download process will take a bit and i will come back in a second once thedownload is complete. okay, great, lets start back up. at this point,we’ve already downloaded eclipse to our local machine. now, it’s just a matter ofinstalling it, okay. depending on your operating system, they may download it as a zip fileor as an executable, but you can simply double click it to start it up. in this case, i willdouble click this file, it’s going to extract everything for eclipse and it’s going tocreate a new folder in my directory. right now this is in my downloads directoryand it has eclipse and all of its actual artifacts

and files. what i will do is i’ll actuallymove this to my main home directory so i can just use it directly from my desktop. i’lljust kind of drag and drop it only here. this is my directory, it has eclipse and then ican open this up and then there is an eclipse icon. you can select the eclipse icon, doubleclick it and that will start eclipse. it will prompt you for an actual work space.i will talk more about work spaces in a second but for now just go ahead and click okay andthis will start up the eclipse launch sequence. once eclipse is loaded, you make it to thewelcome page and you can peruse some of the features that are available here. this isactually the overview, samples, tutorials, and what’s new. at this point we are successfulwith having eclipse installed on our local

computer. in this video i showed you how to installeclipse. we covered the system requirements, how to download eclipse, how to install itand finally how to start eclipse to verify our installation. i’d like for you to subscribeto this channel to keep track of more videos that we have on the java technology and eclipse.i’d also like for you to go visit our website luv2code.com to download java source code.