Courtesy of The Eclipse Foundation. Used with permission. How to Install Eclipse. Mac OS. In 1.00/1.001/1.002, you will use the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to. create, compile, and run Java programming assignments. Eclipse version 3.7.1 is the IDE. supported by the 1.00 staff. This document contains step-by-step instructions for installing Eclipse on a Mac OS X computer. Do not install Eclipse until you have installed Java and its documentation.