Installing e(fx)clipse IDE.

How to install e(fx)clipse on a Mars 4.5.0 version of eclipse. These instructions were written and the screen captures taken with a clean install of the Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers 64 bit package available here (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-rcp-and-rap-developers/marsr). The Operating system used was Windows 7 SP1. These steps do not include the install of eclipse 4.5.0 (Mars).

Select the Help menu.
Select the Install New Software... option.

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Select the --All Available Sites -- option from the Work with: drop down list.
Uncheck the Group items by category check box in the bottom details section.
Check only the e(fx)clipse - IDE Name option. All the other options starting with e(fx)clipse - IDE are subsets of the full e(fx)clipse IDE. The e(fx)clipse - Minimal JavaFX OSGi integration bundles option is out of scope for these instructions.
Press the Next > button.

Press the Next > button.

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Press the I accept the terms of the license agreement radio button.
Press the Finish button.

Wait about 2 minutes for the install to complete.

Press the Yes button.

Setup a target platform for your application development

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Open Window > Preferences > Plugin-in Development > Target Platform
Click Add ... on the right.

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Select Nothing: Start with an empty target definition.
Press the Next > button.

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Enter e(fx)clipse as the target platform Name:.
Press the Add... button.

Select Software Site. Then press the Next > button.

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Enter http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/runtime-released/2.0.0/site as the site. Press the enter key while in the Work with: text box.
Expand FX Target and check Target Platform for Eclipse
Uncheck Include required software check box.
Press the Finish button.

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The resolving will take less then one minute on most systems.

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Check the e(fx)clipse check box to make the new target platform the (Active) platform.
Press the Apply button.
Press the OK button.

Configure eclipse to use a JDK not a JRE

When doing a ant build and run from the FX Build Configuration (file: build.fxbuild) the JRE Library must really be a JDK. The following step show how to configure a JRE as a JDK so the ant build and run will work.

Window -> Preferences

Java -> Installed JREs
Press the Add... button.

Select Standard VM
Press the Next > button.

Don't press the Directory... button. The Directory... button will filter out JDKs and only show JREs.

Use the Operating System's file system browser get the full path of the target JDK.
In this example
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25
Copy and paste the full path into the JRE home: text box.
Press the Finish button.

Make the new JDK the default JRE by checking the check box.
Press the OK button.

Navigate to the Execution Environments dialog.
Java -> Installed JREs -> Execution Environments.
Check the check box next the JDK, not the JRE.
Press the OK button.

The steps are now complete. All future new projects will point to a JDK, not a JRE. If you have any existing projects they will still point to the JRE, not the JDK.