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An integrated development environment (IDE) provides facilities for software development and typically consists of editors for editing source code, a compiler, project management tools, build automation tools and debugging tools. IDEs help in increasing the productivity by automating many tasks and often provide one-step process for creating a ready to use binary from source code. Eclipse and NetBeans are two most popular IDEs.
The Apache Geronimo Development Tools project is aimed at providing a rich set of development tools for Geronimo, focusing on application development, migration and IDE integration. The two major tools available currently are Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) and JBoss to Geronimo Migration Tool (J2G). Also, a Geronimo NetBeans Plugin is under development in Geronimo Sandbox. This article on setting up a development environment is organized as given below:
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Options and tools
The Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) provides integration between Geronimo and the Web Tools Platform (WTP). With this plugin, users will be able to use the features in WTP to create, deploy and debug applications on Geronimo. This article helps with setting up a development environment using GEP.
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The Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) requires the following prerequisite software (Note: Update the list once GEP 2.1 is released).
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Sun JDK 5.0 can be downloaded from Sun's J2SE 5.0 Downloads site. WTP along with and all the other prerequisites can be downloaded in one combined bundle from WTP Downloads site.
Geronimo server can be installed from within Geronimo Eclipse Plugin. This feature does not work currently for 2.1 server. Download Geronimo 2.1 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 (for e.g. C:\g\geronimo-tomcat6-javaee5-2.1) or geronimo-jetty6-javaee5-2.1 depending on whether you downloaded Geronimo 2.1 distribution with Tomcat or Jetty as the web container. We will refer to this directory as <geronimo_home> from now on.
Installing Eclipse
The prerequisite software for GEP can be downloaded either as a single download or individual downloads. In this section we discuss the various options available to install the prerequisite software.
WTP All-in-One package
WTP along with all the other prerequisites can be downloaded in one combined bundle from WTP Downloads site. Download WTP All-In-One Package specific to your platform from v2.0.1 of WTP. Extract the archive to a directory of your choice (for e.g. C:\wtp). The archive will be extracted to a directory named eclipse under the directory you specified (for e.g. C:\wtp\eclipse), referred to as <eclipse_home> from now on. This completes the installation of eclipse.
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