[FLINK-5008] Update quickstart documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Nico Kruber
• Reporter: Nico Kruber
• Created: 03/Nov/16 15:10
• Updated: 16/Dec/16 15:50
• Resolved: 16/Dec/16 15:50

Description

• The IDE setup documentation of Flink is outdated in both parts: IntelliJ IDEA was based on an old version and Eclipse/Scala IDE does not work at all anymore.
• The example in the "Quickstart: Setup" is outdated and requires "." to be in the path.

Issue Links

• relates to: FLINK-5087 Additional steps needed for the Java quickstart guide
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2764