Jakarta EE Programming/IDE/Eclipse

Eclipse Goals learn how to set up eclipse learn which plugins are available for developing j2ee applications develop a basic example, compile it and deploy it What is Eclipse Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment written in Java by IBM Eclipse is Open-Source-Software Eclipse offers many plugin to use for different tasks Set Up Eclipse requirements your installed JDK is working, to check it enter in a shell: java -version result should be something like java version "1.5.0_06" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode) action go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and download the Eclipse which matches your platform this book assumes you use version 3.2.1 untar eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz change to directory eclipse start eclipse if you have never worked with eclipse before, you should do the tutorials plugins are installed via Update Manager Help->Software Updates->Find and Install Select Search for New features Set Up Plugins Your needed plugins depend on your project's goal The Ecplise Web Tools Platform Project You want to develop a J2EE Web-application Consists of source editors for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, SQL, XML, DTD, XSD, and WSDL; graphical editors for XSD and WSDL project homepage: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html Requirements Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) url for update manager: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/releases/site.xml documentation: GEF http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/GEF_Developer_FAQ#Download_and_Install Visual Editor (VE) urls for update manager: http://update.eclipse.org/tools/ve/updates/1.0 http://update.eclipse.org/tools/emf/updates http://update.eclipse.org/updates/3.0 documentation: http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/faq.html#install_howto Action url for update manager: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/ documentation: http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/ Building an example application Lomboz Building an example application how to build a prg in lomboz. other plugins Building an example application further reading links Home of Eclipse Project