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- Java J2SE 1.5.0 or greater
- Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Ganymede (Eclipse 3.4) or Europa (Eclipse 3.3 Winter))
- Apache Geronimo 2.0.x or 2.1.x server
Sun JDK 5.0 can be downloaded from Sun's J2SE 5.0 Downloads site. The Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers can be downloaded from the Eclipse Downloads site. Download and extract the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers archives to a directory of your choice (for e.g. C:\eclipse). The archive will be extracted to a directory named eclipse under the directory you specified (for e.g. C:\eclipse\eclipse), referred to as <eclipse_home> from now on. Make sure that the JDK in the PATH is Sun JDK 5.0. Launch Eclipse by running <eclipse_home>/eclipse.
To install the Geronimo server, download the Geronimo 2.1.3 server from http://www.apache.org/dist/geronimo/ and extract the archive to a directory of your choice (for e.g. C:\g). The archive will be extracted to a directory geronimo-tomcat6-javaee5-2.1.3 (for e.g. C:\g\geronimo-tomcat6-javaee5-2.1.3) or geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1.3 depending on whether you downloaded Geronimo 2.1.3 distribution with Tomcat or Jetty as the web container. We will refer to this directory as <geronimo_home> from now on.
Installing GEP within WTP
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