Hello Raspberry Pi: Install Eclipse JDT on Raspberry Pi 2/Raspbian

Thursday, March 19, 2015

To install Eclipse with JDT (Java development tools) on Raspberry Pi 2/Raspbian, enter the commands:

$ sudo apt-get install eclipse

$ sudo apt-get install eclipse-jdt

This video show how to:

Please notice:

- The installed version of Eclipse 3.8.0

- After installed, the default java and javac will be changed to 1.6.0 of OpenJDK!

This video show example of "Hello World" using Eclipse JDT.

by： Erik at: 12:36 PM

Mcyellen said...: Why it is RPI2 only tutorial? What is wrong with the previous versions of RPI?; March 22, 2015 at 9:54 AM
Erik said...: Hello Mcyellen,

I think it can work on previous RPi also, but may be too slow.

With quad-core CPU on RPi 2, the performance improved much more. Actually, in my recent post, I'm trying to see what can run on RPi 2.; March 22, 2015 at 12:36 PM
Sai Pradeep Dandem said...: Very Helpfull !!
I actually want to work with Jdk 1.8.
How to upgrade the eclipse to get compilance with jdk 8 ?; March 24, 2016 at 10:04 PM