Geronimo provides tooling for Eclipse and enables developers using Eclipse to use a Geronimo server to run the Java EE applications being developed. This article helps with setting up a development environment using Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP).

Options and tools

The Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) requires the following prerequisite software (Note: Update the list once GEP 2.1 is released).

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
• Eclipse 3.3.1
• WTP 2.0.1

Java Runtime Environment can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Eclipse and WTP can be downloaded in one combined bundle, referred to as WTP All-in-One package from http://people.apache.org/dist/geronimo/eclipse/unstable/ECLIPSE_AND_WTP.zip (Note: Update the URL once GEP 2.1 is released and prereqs are defined.) Otherwise, the you can download Eclipse 3.3.1 from http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3.1-200709211145/index.php and WTP from http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R2.0/R-2.0.1-20070926042742/. (Note: Need to get the details on the differences in the two approaches)

Installing Eclipse

Download the Eclipse and WTP or WTP All-in-One package suitable for you OS.

WTP All-in-One package

If you have downloaded WTP All-in-One package, extract the archive to a directory of your choice (for e.g. on Windows to C:\eclipse). This completes the installation of Eclipse.

Eclipse and WTP downloaded separately

Alternatively you can download Eclipse and WTP separately and install the prerequisites using the following steps:
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• Options and tools
• Installing eclipse
• Creating a new project
• Configuring your development environment
• Installing geronimo plugins
• Defining servers