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Introduction

Welcome to the Frontier® IDE User’s Guide. This document describes the Parabon® Frontier Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Plug-in, an Eclipse plug-in that enables you to load and run the sample applications included with the Frontier SDK, browse the SDK documentation and tutorial from within the Eclipse environment, and access the Frontier javadocs from your source code as you create distributed, compute-intensive applications that run on the Frontier grid platform.

The document is designed to:

• Provide instructions on the installation and setup of the Frontier IDE.
• Provide an overview of the Frontier IDE features.

For more information on developing applications for Frontier, see The Frontier SDK User's Guide & Tutorial and read The Frontier Platform Application Programming Interface, which explains many of the concepts the tutorial explores.