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# Adding a Class to Your Project

First, creat a package for your class. Select the project you created in the package explorer, right click, and select "New" > "Package" from the context menu. Name the package "myPackage" then click finish.

Select the package you just created, and from the context menu select “New" > "Class”. Name the class “HelloWorld” and select the option to let Eclipse create a new main method for you. Click "Finish".

Edit the text in the editor so that it looks something like this:

/*

* Created on 20-Aug-2003

*

* To change this generated comment go to

* Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments

*/

/**

* To change this generated comment go to

* Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments

*/

public class HelloWorld {

public static void main(String[] args) {

sayHello();

}

public static void sayHello() {

System.out.println("Hello");

}

}

Save the file.

Notice that unlike in a Java project, there was no eager parsing of the buffer as you typed (the outline view didn’t update). Your Eclipse workbench should be looking something like this: