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Homepage: |
http://www.eclipse.org/ |
Download: |
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ |
File(s): |
Windows: Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers: eclipse-jee-ganymede-SR2-win32.zip (168 MB) |
Installation
Windows:
- Unzip ZIP-file to an appropriate folder (C:\Program Files)
- Rename unpacked folder "eclipse" to "Eclipse_Ganymede"
- Create a desktop shortcut or quick launch icon to the executable "eclipse.exe" in the unpacked folder
Linux:
Terminal
# cd /usr/local/bin/ # tar xvfz /home/ralf/DOWNLOADS/eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz # mv eclipse/ eclipse-galileo/
Configuration
- Change start parameters in "C:\Program Files\Eclipse_Ganymede\eclipse.ini" or "/usr/local/bin/eclipse-galileo/eclipse.ini"
Windows:
File eclipse.ini
-showsplash org.eclipse.platform --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256M -vm C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_13\bin\javaw.exe -framework plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.3.R34x_v20081215-1030.jar -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Xmx700m -XX:MaxPermSize=690M
Linux:
File eclipse.ini
-startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200.v20090520 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product -showsplash org.eclipse.platform --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 256m -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -XX:MaxPermSize=690m -Xms40m -Xmx700m
Note: Xmx and XX params must be appropriate to your available memory. If Eclipse does not start, down tune them.
- Start Eclipse using shortcut
- In Workspace Launcher
- point the "Workspace:" field to a new Workspace-folder like "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\DEV\<companyname>" (Windows) or "/home/ralf/DEV/<companyname>" (Linux). Better would be a very short path for the workspace directory (to avoid later problems if your project has a very deep folder hierarchy/packages), e.g. "D:\WORKSPACES\<companyname>" (Windows)
- Don't check "Use this as default..." (so it will be easier to switch between different workspaces later)
- Close "Welcome" tab.
- In Workspace Launcher
Some basic preference settings
- Window - Preferences:
- General: Show heap status
- General - Editors - Text Editors: Show line numbers
- General - Editors - Text Editors - Spelling - Dictionaries: Encoding: UTF-8
- General - Network Connections: Manual proxy configuration
- HTTP proxy: <company_proxy_address>, Port: <company_proxy_port>
- Use this proxy server for SSL
- No proxy for: add internal addresses
- Enable proxy authentication: <username>/<password>
- General - Workspace: Text file encoding: Other: UTF-8
- Java - Code Style - Formatter - Java Conventions [built-in] -> Use Sun Java Code Conventions
Plugins
Subclipse
Homepage: |
http://subclipse.tigris.org/ |
- Installation
In Eclipse:- Menu "Help - Install New Software..."
- Install dialog: "Add...": Name: "http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x", Location: "http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x" - OK
- Select all (if you are not sure what to select) - Next > - Next >* Accept license - Finish
- Restart Eclipse
- Configuration
In Eclipse:- Menu "Window - Open Perspective - Other... - SVN Repository Exploring" - OK
- Usage
- Add a new repository location:
Example:- Adding Wicket repository:
"SVN Repositories" view: right click - New - Repository location... - Location Url: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/
- Adding Wicket repository:
- Check out
Example:- Checking out Wicket "trunk":
Right click "http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/ - trunk" in "SVN Repositories" - Checkout... - Checkout as project in the workspace, Project Name: "wicket-trunk" - Finish
- Checking out Wicket "trunk":
- Add a new repository location:
- Troubleshooting
- Failed to load JavaHL Library.
Ubuntu:- Install libsvn-java
- Edit eclipse.ini and add java.library.path:
eclipse.ini
-vmargs -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
- Failed to load JavaHL Library.
M2Eclipse
Maven Integration for Eclipse provides tight integration for Maven into the IDE.
Homepage: |
http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/ |
- Installation
In Eclipse:- Menu "Help - Install New Software..."
- Install dialog: "Add...": Name: "http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e", Location: "http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e" - OK
- Select all (if you are not sure what to select, I unchecked AJDT...) - Next > - Next >
- Accept license - Finish
- Restart Eclipse
Install additional "extras" from "http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras"