When you have Hadoop Eclipse plugin installed and configured. In Eclipse create a mapreduce project, it provides required dependencies of hadoop and other jars. Then you need to create Main class, Mapper class and Reducer class, In Main class you need to configure Job. wordcount example
once done you can run main program as run on hadoop, no need to start hadoop before running the program
for 1.0.3 plugin: Apache has remove the plugin from Hadoop installation folder. Instead you can find Eclipse Plugin source code with build.xml file at "${HADOOP_HOME}\hadoop-1.0.3\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin". or you can simply download it from here