Wednesday, April 23, 2008

How to setup development environment using Eclipse

1. Install Eclipse IDE for JavaEE Developers with WTP support (3.3.x)
2. Download JRE and Application server separately
3. Make sure that Eclipse is pointing to correct Target Run Time (JRE)
4. Add Servers using Window> Show View> Servers > Add > New Server
5. Create a New Web Project using File> New> Project> Web Project
6. Link source folders if source already exist or copy it to default src folder created in step 3
7. Add all 3rd party libraries e.g. Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Log4j
8. Add Ant build script using


Find references at " http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-tomcat/ "