Help with eclipse installation, please!

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I usually use dreamweaver but now I have to use eclipse. I'm so confuse as where to start. I've googled for guide to eclipse installation but not sure what to do.
Here is what I found:
On this link http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2006/cmsc132/EclipseTutorial/install.html it says I have to first install jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe but I can't download this file because I'm not their student. I looked around everywhere and can't find this file for download.
Then I thought I may be just download eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
When I clicked download, I'm face with anothe confusing page, I'm not sure which one to choose.
Do I have to download : Eclipse Classic 3.4.1 (151 MB) ? how about JDK?
I searched for JDK on my machine and I did not see any jdk except jdk12utils folder, jdk118 folder, jdk122 folder and jaguar server (jdk1.2). There a re a bunch of other jdk such as JDK_JJ, JDK_VJ, etc

I need to use eclipse just to develop web application with coldfusion (locally) and databse Sybase and that is it. No java no nothing and I'm no java person so these things confuse me, please help!

Oh by the way, I also read somewhere that once I installed eclipse I need to install the CFEclipse.
Please help!!!!

[Newsgroup_User]

> http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2006/cmsc132/EclipseTutorial/install.html it
> says I have to first install jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe but I can't
> download this file because I'm not their student. I looked around everywhere
> and can't find this file for download.

Really? I just Googled "jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe" and found rather
a lot of matches. One can download it from the very first link.

There are more recent versions of Java than that, though.

If you ever need to download a JDK, the Java website is perhaps the best
bet (java.sun.com).


> Do I have to download : Eclipse Classic 3.4.1 (151 MB) ? how about JDK?
> I searched for JDK on my machine and I did not see any jdk except jdk12utils
> folder, jdk118 folder, jdk122 folder and jaguar server (jdk1.2). There a re a
> bunch of other jdk such as JDK_JJ, JDK_VJ, etc

OK, some background. Eclipse is a Java application, so to run it, one
needs Java installed.

If you don't already have a JDK installed, then the option you want is the
one WITH the JDK, because that will definitely be the a suitbale version to
run Eclipse one. One might not want to D/L the version bundled with a JDK
if one already has the same or more recent JDK installed.


> Oh by the way, I also read somewhere that once I installed eclipse I need to
> install the CFEclipse.
> Please help!!!!

Well: start by googling CFEclipse. On the website for it, there'll be a
D/L as well as instructions. It's pretty straight fwd, if one reads the
instructions.

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Adam

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I went to http://www.cfeclipse.org/download.cfm to download CFEclipse. It is said that CFEclipse doesn't work well with Eclipse Ganymede but at the eclipse.org website eclipse classic is Ganymede version 3.4
It is confusing

[Newsgroup_User]

> I went to http://www.cfeclipse.org/download.cfm to download CFEclipse. It is
> said that CFEclipse doesn't work well with Eclipse Ganymede but at the
> eclipse.org website eclipse classic is Ganymede version 3.4
> It is confusing

There should be somewhere on the Eclipse site to download previous
versions. Grab the version that CFEclipse says it is best compatible with.

I'm running Eclipse 3.2 and CFEclipse 1.3, and it works OK. I do recall
trying to get the latest version of CFEclipse running on the latest version
of Eclipse but it didn't work, so reverted back to what I knew did work.
I'm not exactly hanging out for bleeding-edge functionality of either, I
pretty much just use the big empty white area for typing code in, and it's
convenient that CFEclipse does syntax highlighting. I don't use any
features of CFEclipse beyond that. I use the file-searching functionality
of Eclipse, and have a couple of other plug-ins installed for source
control and XML manipulation, which is the chief reason I use Eclipse as my
text editor.

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Adam