Eclipse and MyEclipse

by Sandeep Desai (http://www.thedesai.net)

Eclipse is an open source IDE, there are numerous plugins available for creating J2EE Applications.

The best way to use Eclipse is to purchase MyEclipse

MyEclipse IDE 5.0

• Supports Spring, Hibernate, EJB, Struts, JSF, UML, Database Explorer, Javascript, AJAX etc
• Deploy to almost any app Server
• Free 30 day trail ($52.95 annual subscription)

Installation

• Download Eclipse 3.2
• Unzip Eclipse
• Download MyEclipse Plugin 5.0 (expires in 30 days, professional subscription $50)
• Install MyEclipse Plugin
• Launch eclipse.exe or MyEclipse from Windows Start Menu
• MyEclipse features are available by right clicking on a project and clicking the MyEclipse menu

Creating Web Project

• Click on New
• Click on Project
• Select Web Project
• Specify Project Name
• This will create a Servlet and JSP application
• To add Struts support right click on Project, Click on MyEclipse and Click on Add Struts Capabilities
• Click on Window Menu, Preferences, MyEclipse, Application Servers to setup an Application Server
• To Deploy application click on toolbar Deploy Button
• Make sure that you click on J2EE Prespective on the top right hand side to access all the J2EE features
• Make sure that you create all JSP under WebRoot

UML

Click on New UML Model Repository

• New Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Use case Diagram etc should appear on the main toolbar

Database Explorer

• Click on Windows, Preferences, MyEclipse, Database Explorer, Drivers to setup Database Connection
• Click on Window, Open Prespective, Database Explorer to launch Explorer

Click on top right hand side perspective icons to switch between Java, J2EE, Debug and UML perspective

MyEclipse Tutorials for Struts, JSF, EJB etc

Struts Tutorial Step by Step

Eclipse

• Download Eclipse
• Setup Proxy in Windows Preferences, Install/Update e.g. www-proxy.acme.com
• Click on Help/Update/Find and Install Updates
• Download everything except C/C++ from Callisto Discovery
• Setup Proxy in Windows Preferences, Internet e.g. www-proxy.acme.com
• Install Spring IDE by setting up Remote Site in Software Update to http://springide.org/updatesite
• Install JBoss IDE which contains Hibernate Tools by setting up Remote Site in Software Update to http://download.jboss.org/jbosside/updates/stable
• Install Struts Console by downloading http://www.jamesholmes.com/struts/console/

Eclispse Callisto has support for deploying Web Applications to Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle OC4J, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic and Apache Geronimo

To Create a Servlet

Create Dynamic Web Project

Create Servlet

Right click on Project and Click on Export to create War file

Links

Eclipse Plugin Central