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Figure 10.12
Eclipse splash screen
During this initial run some workspace directories and data files are set
up. These store meta-information about projects and perspectives. After a
moment, you will get the standard splash screen (Figure 10.12).
Following this, you will see the initial Eclipse IDE, with a welcome screen
in the default Resource perspective (Figure 10.13).
Eclipse works with
projects
. A project is a collection of files that you man-
age as a group. Usually a project is a single program, although it need not be.
Eclipse remembers the state of all projects. If you close Eclipse in the middle
of a debug session on a project, the next time you open Eclipse, it will have that
same project open in the Debug perspective. If you then switch to another
project and switch back, you will come back to the Debug perspective. Eclipse
remembers. But we get ahead of ourselves here. You need to create a project.
10.4.2
Now that you have Eclipse up and running (Figure 10.13), you will
want to create a Java project. Eclipse has “wizards” (to use the Microsoft
Windows terminology) for creating projects. From the main menu, select
File
>
New
>
Project
. You will get the screen shown in Figure 10.14.
Now, you are not an idiot. This is not “Java Applications Programming
on Linux for People with Well Below Average Intelligence.” We're not going
to walk you slowly and painfully through a screenshot of every window Eclipse
Using Eclipse for a New Project
