Installing Eclipse and plugins to work with org.lcsim
Additional Plugins
Eclipse is written in Java, but supports also C/C++ and Jython. A Fortran plugin is planned
First you have to download Eclipse and install it. Go to http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
and select the latest "3.1 Stream Stable Build" (3.1M6 at the time of this writing)
Eclipse Builds
Eclipse versions prior to 3.1M1 lack support for Java 1.5. If you want to work with org.lcsim you must have Java 1.5 or later. While even version 3.1M6 is not a full release version, it is absolutely stable.
Extract the archive to a location of your choice and start eclipse.
Installing plugins
The most important plugin to install is the Mevenide which allows Eclipse to build a project with Maven.