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Setting Eclipse for Application development

1. Launch Eclipse and Create create a dynamic web project as shown in the figure
   
   
   
   
   
2. Give the fields for the Web Project as shown in the following figure
   
   
   
   
   
3. Check the box for JavaServerFaces and under the version tab select 1.2 as the version
   
   
   
   
   
4. Once done you can give default values for web module and Geronimo Deployment Plan. On the JSF capabilities window check the box and select new as shown in the figure
   
   
   
   
   
5. The next window suggests to create JSF Implementation library. Give the library name as JSFCustomLibrary and add the following jars. Select Finish once done. See the figure below:
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\commons-beanutils\commons-beanutils\1.6.1\commons-beanutils-1.6.1.jar
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\commons-collections\commons-collections\3.1\commons-collections-3.1.jar
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\commons-digester\commons-digester\1.8\commons-digester-1.8.jar
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\commons-logging\commons-logging\1.0.4\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\org\apache\myfaces\core\myfaces-api\1.2.2\myfaces-api-1.2.2.jar
   • <GERONIMO_HOME>\repository\org\apache\myfaces\core\myfaces-impl\1.2.2\myfaces-impl-1.2.2.jar
     
     
     
     
     
     
6. Check Deploy and modify the URL pattern to *.jsf as shown in the figure. Select Finish.
   
   
   
   
   This finishes the setting up of Eclipse IDE for application development

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