help with setting up eclipse & netbeans

[TEAM-3871]

Hey this is Andy with team 3871 and last year was our rookie year.... and we wanted to improve on programming I.E.- instead of using labview try java... to make a long store short i have netbeans and JDK installed properly i think? and have attempted to install the frc plugins. but how do i know if every thing is working / dose anyone have a sample code that i could try to see if every thing working.
I am not familiar with netbeans, but i am kinda with eclipse, and would like to use it rather than netbeans, but can not seem to figure out how to install FRC plugins. if some one could walk me through how to do this as well i / we would appreciate it.
Thanks
Andy & Team 3871