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If you are reading this then this is probably the first time you have run eclipse here at CCIS. This page assumes one thing and that is that you are logged into a CCIS Windows machine as yourself (and not as the user pclab). If that is not the case please see the following page first: Syncing your Unix and Windows Passwords

Now that we have that taken care of the following should be pretty straight forward.

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Step One:

Eclipse will need a place to store your configuration and a place to store your work. To that end you will need to create two directories.

In your home directory (My Documents, Z: drive) create a directory called eclipse. In the eclipse directory create a directory called workspace.

Step Two:

Now you need to create a shortcut that you can use to run eclipse. You can do this by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting New->Shortcut.

You should see a window like this:

The location of eclipse is "P:\Eclipse\eclipse-3.0\eclipse.exe" and this is what you should enter in the Create Shortcut window. Then click Next and give the shortcut a name (you can keep the default).

You should now have a shortcut on your desktop for eclipse, but you aren't done yet.

Right click on the shortcut and select Properties, you should see a window that looks something like this:

Make sure that the target text reads:

P:\Eclipse\eclipse-3.0\eclipse.exe -configuration Z:\eclipse\config -data Z:\eclipse\workspace

The -configuration and -data flags are necessary for eclipse to have a writable directories that it can use. Without these flags it will not work.

And the Start in: text should read:

  Z:\eclipse\workspace

Hit the Apply button and you should be all set. You should now be able to double-click on the shortcut and have eclipse run. If you copy the shortcut to your My Documents folder it should follow you wherever you log in at CCIS.