Step 2: How to create a new project

Launch Config Create Edit Run

1. Choose File → New → Java Project from the Eclipse menu bar, as in the following example:
   
2. The following window will be displayed. Enter the Project name and make sure the "Use Project folder as root for sources and class files" option is selected in the "Project layout" section as shown in the image below:
   

3. If you click the "Configure default..." link in the "Project Layout" area, you can make these settings your default settings for new projects.  Select "Project" for the "Source and output folder" option and click "OK" button.  We recommend that students configure Eclipse in this way.
   
4. After returning to the New Project Wizard dialog box, click Finish to actually create the project you just described. The following screen will be displayed, denoting a workspace with one project to choose from the Package Explorer:
   

   Note: If you forgot to close the Welcome screen (shown in the prior step), then you will not see the above window. To close the Welcome screen, click the X on the tab labeled Welcome(towards the top left of the Eclipse window). Now you should see the workspace.

5. Congratulations, you have created your first Java project! But, we're only part way there. Next comes putting some substance (code) into the project to make a working program!

   Leave this project window open, since you will be continuing with the tutorial at this time. In general, once you have created a project and are done working on it for the time being, you may exit Eclipse by clicking the  button in the upper right hand corner of the Eclipse title bar, or through the Eclipse menu File → Exit.

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   Launch Config Create Edit Run

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   Original version created by Deb Deppeler and Sue Hazlett
   Updated for Eclipse by Martin Hock
   Updated for lab section use by Beck Hasti
   2008-2012 Updated by Jim Skrentny
   2014 Updated for v4.4 and added Editor Preferences by Deb Deppeler