Before we start diving into Projector, we need to set up the development environment to work on a Projector based application. This section describes the setup based on the Eclipse IDE. It is strongly recommended to use Eclipse 3.0 as the team and WebDAV support is much better and more stable than in the previous 2.x series.

This section will not cover the upcoming Projector plug-in as you will probably use another IDE and you would be lost if you only would know how to build applications using the plug-in. So even if this approach is a little bit more uncomfortable it is very useful as you’ll also get a deeper understanding of the basic concepts and you’ll honor the time and pain that the plug-in will save you in the future.

If you assemble a Projector application that only uses the processors that ship with Projector you do not need to setup a full java development environment. But as we later want to extend Projector by implementing some custom classes we will setup the java environment as well.