Time for action – downloading and installing Eclipse
Steps to download and install Eclipse are as follows:
Go to http://eclipse.org/ and download the latest (or your favorite) version of Eclipse for Java EE Developers.
Extract the downloaded file to the directory you would like Eclipse to be installed in.
Execute
eclipse.exe
oreclipse
according to your operating system flavor.
What just happened?
Guess what? We've just downloaded and installed Eclipse. Seriously, that was the very first step; now we need to install the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse.
Installing the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse
In this section we will see how to install the Vaadin plugin for Eclipse.