{"id":968,"date":"2010-09-04T23:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JitendraZaa.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T09:50:54","slug":"install-force-com-ide-in-eclipse-salesforce-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/salesforce\/install-force-com-ide-in-eclipse-salesforce-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Install or Update Force.com IDE in Eclipse &#8211; Salesforce.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First step to start with coding in Salesforce.com is to install the <strong>force.com IDE <\/strong>in Eclipse. I will target the new version of eclipse which is Kepler. Force.com IDE is supported in Eclipse Juno as well as Eclipse Kepler.<\/p>\n<p>So, we will start with launching the Eclipse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse-Kepler.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3583\" alt=\"Eclipse Kepler\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse-Kepler.jpg?resize=473%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"473\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eclipse Kepler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>then goto <strong>Help -> \u00a0Software Update \/ Install new software&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_softwareupdates_300w.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-972\" title=\"Eclipse Software update for salesforce\" alt=\"Eclipse Software update for salesforce\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_softwareupdates_300w.png?resize=300%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then Add <strong>Force.com <\/strong>site.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click &#8220;Add Site&#8221;. The Add Site dialog opens.<\/li>\n<li>Set the Name to &#8220;Force.com IDE&#8221; and the Location to &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/media.developerforce.com\/force-ide\/eclipse42\" href=\"http:\/\/media.developerforce.com\/force-ide\/eclipse42\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/media.developerforce.com\/force-ide\/eclipse42<\/a>&#8220;, then click &#8220;OK.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_addsite_486w.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Eclipse add site Salesforce\" alt=\"Eclipse add site Salesforce\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_addsite_486w.png?resize=486%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"486\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After you add the site, you will get the list of all available plugins, click on <strong>force.com<\/strong> and then click Next.<\/p>\n<p>In the Install dialog, click &#8220;Next&#8221; then accept the terms and click.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_checkandnext_486w.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-974\" title=\"Eclipse check and next Salesforce\" alt=\"Eclipse check and next Salesforce\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Eclipse_checkandnext_486w.png?resize=486%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"486\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>follow the instructions and IDE will be installed.<\/p>\n<p>After Installation, Create new Project of type <strong>Force.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Setup-Salesforce-Account.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" title=\"New Salesforce Project Settings\" alt=\"New Salesforce Project Settings\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Setup-Salesforce-Account.jpg?resize=479%2C419&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"479\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>As You can see in above snap following details needed while creating the salesforce project.<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Salesforce UserName<\/li>\n<li>Salesforce Password<\/li>\n<li>Salesforce Security Token<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Force.com IDE Installation\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.developerforce.com\/page\/Force.com_IDE_Installation\" target=\"_blank\">You can always watch this space for official documentation of Salesforce regarding installing Force.com Plugin in Eclipse.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to update Force.com IDE ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salesforce releases new feature almost three times a year like Winter, Spring and Summer release. So at those time, API version also gets changed. If you will not update your force.com IDE, you will always end up with creating Apex and other resources in Old version. So it is always recommended to update existing installation of force.com IDE. To update IDE you have to follow below steps :<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open Force.com IDE and Navigate to Help | Show Force.com Start Page.<\/li>\n<li>On Upper right hand corner of new Window, there will be link to update IDE.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Salesforce.com IDE Installation error\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile installing eclipse, if you get error something like<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: cpp; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nCannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency.\r\n  Software being installed: Force.com IDE 20.0.1.201011121559 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 20.0.1.201011121559)\r\n  Software currently installed: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284708747720 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1284708747720)\r\n  Only one of the following can be installed at once:\r\n    Structured Source Editor 1.2.2.v201008232126 (org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui 1.2.2.v201008232126)\r\n    Structured Source Editor 1.1.102.v200910200227 (org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui 1.1.102.v200910200227)\r\n  Cannot satisfy dependency:\r\n    From: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284708747720 (SharedProfile_epp.package.java 1.0.0.1284708747720)\r\n    To: org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui &#x5B;1.2.2.v201008232126]\r\n  Cannot satisfy dependency:\r\n    From: Force.com IDE 20.0.1.201011121559 (com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group 20.0.1.201011121559)\r\n    To: org.eclipse.wst.html.ui &#x5B;1.0.0,2.0.0)\r\n  Cannot satisfy dependency:\r\n    From: HTML UI Source Editor 1.0.401.v200908111935 (org.eclipse.wst.html.ui 1.0.401.v200908111935)\r\n    To: bundle org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui &#x5B;1.1.0,1.2.0)\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Solution :<\/strong><br \/>\nThis issue is actually caused by Windows 7 UAC (User Access Control) which doesn&#8217;t allow Eclipse to be updated if you&#8217;re running it from within the &#8220;c:\\program files&#8221; directory. Eclipse doesn&#8217;t know how to handle that problem and stupidly reports some misleading conflict information. If you move Eclipse install to &#8220;c:\\eclipse&#8221; It will work just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Check this post if you are getting error &#8211;<a title=\"Eclipse Error \u2013 Unable to refresh from server in Force.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/salesforce\/eclipse-error-unable-to-refresh-from-server-in-force-com\/\">\u00a0Unable to refresh from server in IDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please leave your comments about this article so that i can answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Install the Salesforce IDE and Set up the Salesforce Project in Eclipse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"jz_research_post":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86,87,103,138,331],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salesforce","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipse-juno","tag-force-com-ide","tag-kepler","tag-salesforce"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5246,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/salesforce\/resolve-error-while-fetching-project-code-in-force-com-ide\/","url_meta":{"origin":968,"position":0},"title":"Resolve error while fetching project code in Force.com IDE","author":"Jitendra","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Resolve Force.com IDE error while fetching Salesforce project because of different version","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Salesforce&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Salesforce","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/category\/salesforce\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Eclipse Force.com IDE - MARS.1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Eclipse-Force.com-IDE-MARS.1.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3448,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/salesforce\/using-git-with-force-com-ide-video-tutorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":968,"position":1},"title":"Using GIT with Force.com IDE &#8211; Video Tutorial","author":"Jitendra","date":"September 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In this article, we discussed how to use GIT with Eclipse. 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