Help with eclipse installation, please!

Question

I usually use dreamweaver but now I have to use eclipse. I'm
so confuse as where to start. I've googled for guide to eclipse
installation but not sure what to do.
Here is what I found:
On this link
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2006/cmsc132/EclipseTutorial/install.html
it says I have to first install jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe but
I can't download this file because I'm not their student. I looked
around everywhere and can't find this file for download.
Then I thought I may be just download eclipse from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
When I clicked download, I'm face with anothe confusing page,
I'm not sure which one to choose.
Do I have to download : Eclipse Classic 3.4.1 (151 MB) ? how
about JDK?
I searched for JDK on my machine and I did not see any jdk
except jdk12utils folder, jdk118 folder, jdk122 folder and jaguar
server (jdk1.2). There a re a bunch of other jdk such as JDK_JJ,
JDK_VJ, etc
I need to use eclipse just to develop web application with
coldfusion (locally) and databse Sybase and that is it. No java no
nothing and I'm no java person so these things confuse me, please
help!
Oh by the way, I also read somewhere that once I installed
eclipse I need to install the CFEclipse.
Please help!!!!

Answer 1

>
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2006/cmsc132/EclipseTutorial/install.html
it
> says I have to first install
jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe but I can't
> download this file because I'm not their student. I
looked around everywhere
> and can't find this file for download.
Really? I just Googled "jdk-1_5_0_04-windows-i586-p.exe" and
found rather
a lot of matches. One can download it from the very first
link.
There are more recent versions of Java than that, though.
If you ever need to download a JDK, the Java website is
perhaps the best
bet (java.sun.com).
> Do I have to download : Eclipse Classic 3.4.1 (151 MB) ?
how about JDK?
> I searched for JDK on my machine and I did not see any
jdk except jdk12utils
> folder, jdk118 folder, jdk122 folder and jaguar server
(jdk1.2). There a re a
> bunch of other jdk such as JDK_JJ, JDK_VJ, etc
OK, some background. Eclipse is a Java application, so to run
it, one
needs Java installed.
If you don't already have a JDK installed, then the option
you want is the
one WITH the JDK, because that will definitely be the a
suitbale version to
run Eclipse one. One might not want to D/L the version
bundled with a JDK
if one already has the same or more recent JDK installed.
> Oh by the way, I also read somewhere that once I
installed eclipse I need to
> install the CFEclipse.
> Please help!!!!
Well: start by googling CFEclipse. On the website for it,
there'll be a
D/L as well as instructions. It's pretty straight fwd, if one
reads the
instructions.
Adam