Using Eclipse to build Spark plugins - Need Guidance

Does anyone have a good howto for setting up Eclipse to build Spark plugins? Any guidance would be appreciated. I’'ve gone over the dev-guide but I am unable to figure it out. I am a complete newbie with Java, but I know C/C++, so I figured this might be a good beginners project. It maybe easier to just use VIM and ANT to do this, but I Iike the way Eclipse is laid out. Thanks in advance.

you can configure eclipse to load ant files … after that it’'s only a question of finding the correct task

you can see the ant window with Window->sohw view->ant … then simply add the build.xml … (i guess it’'s named this way)