In the following article I’m going to log a few steps to setup the latest Java SDK and Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu. It is the first in a series of posts I plan to write as I migrate my development environment from Windows to Ubuntu. More here

Ubuntu’s latest distribution ships with a very old version of Eclipse (3.2.2) still. On my old system I sometimes dealt with different SDK versions simultaneously, so I didn’t want to rely on the package manager alone, too. I started by downloading the latest Java SDK from http://java.sun.com.