The eclipse installer is brought to you by a very small team of dedicated individuals. The eclipse IDE packages that it installs are brought to you by the coordinated efforts of Eclipse's vast and diverse community. The Eclipse Community is dedicated to your success. If you have a question about the eclipse installer or a problem using the eclipse installer, ask it or report it.
Eclipse technologies save you time and money, and of course time is money. Eclipse not only provides great tools along with great tools for delivering the great tools, Eclipse provides rich frameworks for building your own compelling applications. The eclipse marketplace has a wide variety of such applications that you can install in your eclipse IDE to enhance your experience.
What Can I Do to Support the Eclipse Community?

Invest Your Money
- If you love Eclipse as much as we do, join the elite club and become a Friend of Eclipse by giving a token of your appreciation.
- If you work for a company, encourage your employer to become an Eclipse Member.
- If you want influence, join the Eclipse IDE Working Group.
- If you've built cool technology, start your own Eclipse Project.
Invest Your Time
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Help answer questions rather than just asking them.
Share your knowledge, experience, and expertise.
- If you don't already have an Eclipse Account, register now.
- The Newcomer Forum is a greate place to help others.
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Help fix bugs and help implement enhancements rather than just reporting problems and requesting features.
Not only will you personally benefit, giving back to the commons makes everything better for everyone.
- If you don't already have an Eclipse Account, register now.
- If you haven't already signed your Eclipse Contributor Agreement, sign now.
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You'll need to set up a development environment with the workspace provisioned to include the Git repositories of the projects to which you wish to contribute.
- The eclipse installer makes this super easy. Many projects have Oomph project setups to automate the setup process. Use the eclipse installer's Advanced Mode... menu item to switch to advanced mode and choose the project on the second page of the wizard.
- Some projects make it even easier to get started by providing a setup configuration: