I am just starting to use it so I am not the best person to advise you (as am using it side by side with NetBeans in my testing), but it seems like mine worked without the plugin as far as I can remember.

Perhaps Tc will chime in here, as she has used it more than me.



>Yep, you're right. Your advice worked, Mel.
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>I was also using WInZip to unzip the file. I used another unzipper and it worked perfectly. Eclipse comes up now, but the editor won't work. Do I now need to install plug-ins to make the editor work?
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>>HI Cecil,
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>>Not sure if this helps, but I figured out how to install Eclipse eaisly after much research and difficulity. The problem was I was using winzip.
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>>If you look at the eclipse zip file that contains all its files, copy them all to c:\eclipse (unzipping while that happens) is automatic on my computer. In other words, you need the same file structure exactly as you see in the zip file.
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>>I found that winzip does not do it correctly, so I wouldn't use that.
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>>Hope this helps...
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>>Mel