Setting up an Eclipse development environment

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Preparing your Eclipse workspace for developing z/OS applications consists of three areas of setup. Each of these areas is described in this section:
  • Setting up a workspace for developing with a specific language. If you know that you plan to work mainly in Assembler, COBOL, or PL/I, you can start with Setting up a workspace for editing source code.
  • Setting up property groups for passing information about your source files to compilers, runtime environments, debug tools, and testing tools.
  • Setting Eclipse preferences for the product tooling.
Additionally, you create customized menus for your Eclipse workspace and add these to the pop-up menus in various Eclipse editors and views.

All of these set-up options are explained in the topics in this section.