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The Eclipse SDK includes the Eclipse Platform, Java development tools, and Plug-in Development Environment,
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including source and both user and programmer documentation.
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If you aren't sure which download you want... then you probably want this one.
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You will need a <ahref="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Installation#Install_a_JVM">Java runtime environment (JRE)</a> to use Eclipse (Java-21 or greater is recommended).
<h3id="testing-framework">Tests and Testing Framework</h3>
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<h3>Tests and Testing Framework</h3>
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These packages contain the Test Framework and JUnit test plugins used to run JUnit plug-in tests from the command line.
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See the Platform's <ahref="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Automated_Testing">Automated Testing</a> wiki page for more information and setup instructions.
These drops contain the SWT libraries and source for standalone SWT application development.
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For examples of standalone SWT applications refer to the <ahref=" https://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/">snippets</a> section of the SWT Component page.
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<p>To run a standalone SWT application, add the swt jar(s) to the classpath.
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For example, if you extract the download below to <code>C:\SWT</code> you would launch the HelloWorld application with the following command:
To run the standalone SWT examples that are shipped with Eclipse, download them from <ahref="https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/">here</a>/$VERSION/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.examples_*.jar.
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Then copy the file to C:\SWT.
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Now you can run the examples that are described <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/swt/examples.php">here</a>.
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On this page you can find the latest builds produced by the <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/">Eclipse Project</a>.
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To get started, run the program and go through the user and developer documentation provided in the help system or see the <ahref="http://help.eclipse.org/">web-based help system</a>.
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To get started, run the program and go through the user and developer documentation provided in the help system or see the <ahref="https://help.eclipse.org/">web-based help system</a>.
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If you have problems installing or getting the workbench to run, <ahref="https://wiki.eclipse.org/The_Official_Eclipse_FAQs">check out the Eclipse Project FAQ</a>, or try posting a question to the <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/forums/">forum</a>.
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See the <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/">main Eclipse Foundation download site</a> for convenient all-in-one packages.
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The <ahref="http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">archive site</a> contains older releases (including the last 3.x version, <ahref="http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.8.2-201301310800/">3.8.2</a>).
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For reference, see also the <ahref="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites">p2 repositories provided</a>, meaning of <ahref="https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/build_types.html">kinds of builds (P,M,I,S, and R)</a>, and the <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/buildSchedule.html">build schedule</a>.
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The <ahref="https://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">archive site</a> contains older releases (including the last 3.x version, <ahref="https://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.8.2-201301310800/">3.8.2</a>).
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For reference, see also the <ahref="https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites">p2 repositories provided</a>, and the <ahref="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-releng/buildSchedule.html">build schedule</a>.
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<h3>Latest Releases</h3>
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<em>Releases</em> are builds that have been declared major releases by the development team - for example <code>R4.38</code>.
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Releases are the right builds for people who want to be on a stable, tested release, and don't need the latest greatest features and improvements.
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Release builds always have an "R" at the beginning of the name i.e. <code>R4.0</code>, <code>R4.37</code> etc.
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<h4>Retention policy</h4>
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Releases are retained indefinitivly.
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However, only the build websites of the last three releases are provided at this main download area.
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Older releases are available in the <ahref="https://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/">Eclipse Archive</a>.
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Existing links to artifacts, that were moved to the archive, are transparently redirected and continue to work.
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Similarly only the P2-repositories of the last ten releases are provided at this download area and older repositories are moved to the archive.
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Again, links pointing to P2-repositories at this download area continue to work, even after a repository was moved to the archive.
<em>Stable builds</em> are <em>integration builds</em> that have been found to be stable enough for most people to use.
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They are promoted from <em>integration</em> to <em>stable build</em> at a regular schedule as milestones or release-candidates and after they have been used for a few days and deemed reasonably stable.
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The latest stable build is the right build for people who want to stay up to date with what is going on in the latest development stream, and don't mind putting up with a few problems in order to get the latest greatest features and bug fixes.
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The latest stable build is the one the development team likes people to be using, because of the valuable and timely feedback.
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<h4>Retention policy</h4>
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Stable builds and their P2-repositories are retained until the targeted release is published.
An <em>Integration build</em> (short <em>I-build</em>) is usually produced once a day and reflects the latest development state from the main branches of all contributing Git repositories.
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Altough great care is taken to submit changes only in best quality, I-builds are more likely to contain bugs and functionality degradations may occure temporarily.
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In case a severe problem is found the corresponding I-Build is marked as unstable.
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Using I-Builds is recommended for developers of Eclipse itself and for those interested in testing the latest features and state.
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<h4>Retention policy</h4>
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The build website of an integration build (short <em>I-build</em>) is retained for at least five days.
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From older I-builds only the first (not unstable) build of a week is retained until the targeted release is published.
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The p2-repository of each I-build is retained until the targeted release is published.
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