- Installing Eclipse:
  - Eclipse can be downloaded independent of Java (though it requires java in order to run).
  - Eclipse download site: http://eclipse.org/downloads/
  - After choosing a version of Eclipse (Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, the base version, includes everything we will use), installation is completed by extracting the zip file to a directory of your choice.
- Installing the WindowBuilder Pro plugin:
  - Note: Eclipse Indigo (3.7) and higher is packaged with WindowsBuilder Pro. For earlier versions use the following steps.
  - The WindowBuilder Pro plugin can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/javadevtools/wbpro/installation/index.html
  - Please follow the installation instructions provided on the download site.
- Other Eclipse plugins:
  - Other add-on modules (in addition to the WindowBuilder Pro module) are available from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
  - While not covered in this training course some of them may be useful, especially the "C/C++ Pack" which provides support for editing C/C++ code.