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- title: Support for the Eclipse IDE
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- [[intro.eclipse]]
- = Support for the Eclipse IDE
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- While Vaadin is not bound to any specific IDE, and you can in fact easily use it
- without any IDE altogether, we provide special support for the Eclipse IDE,
- which has become the most used environment for Java development.
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- *_Vaadin Plug-in for Eclipse_* helps you in:
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- * creating new Vaadin projects,
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- * creating custom themes,
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- * creating custom client-side widgets, and
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- * easily upgrading to a newer version of the Vaadin library.
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- Using the Vaadin plug-in for Eclipse is the recommended way of installing Vaadin for development.
- Downloading the installation package that contains the JARs or defining Vaadin as a Maven dependency is also possible.
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- *_Vaadin Designer_* is a commercial Eclipse plug-in that enables visual editing of Vaadin UIs and composites.
- See <<dummy/../../../designer/designer-overview#designer.overview, "Vaadin Designer">> for its complete reference.
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- Installation of the Eclipse plug-in is covered in <<dummy/../../../framework/getting-started/getting-started-eclipse#getting-started.eclipse,"Vaadin plug-in for Eclipse">>.
- The creation of a new Vaadin project using the plug-in is covered in <<dummy/../../../framework/getting-started/getting-started-first-project#getting-started.first-project.creation,"Creating the Project">>.
- See <<dummy/../../../framework/themes/themes-eclipse#themes.eclipse,"Creating a Theme in Eclipse">> and <<dummy/../../../framework/gwt/gwt-eclipse#gwt.eclipse,"Starting It Simple With Eclipse">> for instructions on using the different features of the plug-in.
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