This cookbook is intended to be used for installing and configuring the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on Windows 10. I used Eclipse as part of my content management system because it allowed me to integrate a Git plugin (which in turn allowed me to version-control my content), and it allowed me to use the markdown editor plugin.
Key concepts
Before I go into the details, I thought it best to explain a few Eclipse concepts first.
Workbench
The term Workbench refers to the desktop development environment. The Workbench aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openess by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workspace resources. Each Workbench window contains one or more Perspectives. Perspectives contain Views and Editors, and control what appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one Workbench window can exist on the desktop at any given time.
Workspace
A Workspace is a conceptual construct. It’s a container for a multiple Eclipse projects.
Note: You must separate your Git repo from your Workspace (no overlap). Both are constructs for organizing project files, and conceptually, both exist in an abstraction layer on top of the file system. It’s important to understand the difference here because you’ll run into trouble later if you don’t keep the two paradigms separate.