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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) that provides a variety of features to make writing and compiling your java code easier. There are no make files (for C programmers) and there is a graphical interface for adding libraries your code depends upon. Eclipse also provides auto completion, refactoring, and code generation.
Which version of Eclipse?
You may have noticed there were many different versions of Eclipse to download. This page helps explain the differences. We picked Eclipse Classic because it was pretty minimal and we don't need any fancy features.