The RCP downloads are meant as a base for building Eclipse RCP applications. As such, they do not include an application of their own and simply running the RCP install will do nothing. Eclipse 3.4 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher, and Java 1.4.2 to Java 1.5.x. Eclipse does not currently run on (64-bit) Java 1.6. Please use BOMArchiveHelper if StuffIt fails to extract the downloaded tar.gz (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=131650). In order to use the SWT_AWT bridge, OS X jre version 1.5.0 Release 5 (or greater) must be used.