====== How to install Eclipse & Aptana Studio on Vista/Windows 7 64-bit? ======

== Installing Eclipse on a 64-bit version of Windows ==

Only the Eclipse SDK comes in a 64-bit flavor for Windows. One solution is to install the Eclipse SDK, and manually install the plugins for Web, XML and Java development.

What I did is install the [[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/|Eclipse IDE for Java Developer]] (32-bit), and copy the content of the [[http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/|Eclipse SDK]] (64-bit) over it.

== Installing the Aptana Studio Plugin on a 64-bit version of Windows ==

In order to ensure the Aptana Studio plugin works on a 64-bit version of Eclipse, do the following (([[https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/faqs/installing-aptana-studio/64-bit-install-win|source]])):

  * Make sure that a ''JAVA_HOME'' environment variable is set on your system.
    * To check or add a new environment variable, search for ''environment'' in the ''Start'' menu search box, and select ''Edit environment variables for your account''.
    * If it does not already exists, add a user variable called ''JAVA_HOME'', pointing to JRE or JDK on your drive, e.g. ''C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16'' or ''C:\Program Files\Java\jre6''
  * Make sure the location of the JRE (or JDK) bin directory is your path by adding '';%JAVA_HOME%\bin'' to the ''PATH'' user environment variable. Create a new ''PATH'' variable if it does not already exists.
  * Download [[http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Download|XulRunner for Windows x64]].
  * Create a ''xulrunner'' directory in your Eclipse installation directory (e.g. ''C:\eclipse''), extract the content of the XulRunner archive in this directory.
  * Add the following at the end the ''eclipse.ini'' file located in your Eclipse installation directory:
<code>-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=xulrunner</code>
  * Install the Aptana Plugin using the [[http://www.aptana.org/studio/plugin|standard instructions]].