Getting started with Eclipse and HBase! Taken strait from the Hadoop wiki. This document (currently) assumes you already have Eclipse downloaded, installed, and configured to your liking. Download and install the Subversive plug-in [WWW] Subversive web site The easiest way to download and install is to use Eclipse's Update Manager. That process is well described one [WWW] the Subversive's site. Think to add the two update sites. For Eclipse 3.3.2 other versions might differ. Select File > new > Other SVN > Checkout Projects from SVN Create a new repository location. Paste http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hbase/trunk into the Url field Mark the whole base directory > next Check that "Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard" is checked > Finish Select wizard type > Java Project Input Project name, for example hbase-trunk > Finish To setup the local variables correctly: Mark project and click Project > Properties > Java Build Path Choose tab Source and remove everything that is there Click Add Folder and add src/java and src/test Choose tab Libraries > Add JARs and add all jars under lib and lib/jetty-ext and all your errors should be resolved.