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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By : Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira
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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By: Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira

Overview of this book

<p>Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse are examples of tools that help developers by automating an assortment of software development-related tasks. By reading this book you will learn how to get Eclipse to automate common development tasks, which will give you a boost of productivity.<br /><br />Getting Started with Eclipse Juno is targeted at any Java programmer interested in taking advantage of the benefits provided by a full-fledged IDE. This book will get the reader up to speed with Eclipse’s powerful features to write, refactor, test, debug, and deploy Java applications.<br /><br />This book covers all you need to know to get up to speed in Eclipse Juno IDE. It is mainly tailored for Java beginners that want to make the jump from their text editors to a powerful IDE. However, seasoned Java developers not familiar with Eclipse will also find the hands-on tutorials in this book useful.</p> <p><br />The book starts off by showing how to perform the most basic activities related to implementing Java applications (creating and organizing Java projects, refactoring, and setting launch configurations), working up to more sophisticated topics as testing, web development, and GUI programming.</p> <p><br />This book covers managing a project using a version control system, testing and debugging an application, the concepts of advanced GUI programming, developing plugins and rich client applications, along with web development.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Eclipse Juno
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Version Control Systems
Index

Installing Tomcat


Before integrating Tomcat with Eclipse, you need to download and install Tomcat. There are several ways to get Tomcat up and running. On one end of the spectrum, it is possible to download Tomcat's source code and build and test it. On the other end, you can simply download a binary version of it. Here, we are taking the arguably easiest path to installing Tomcat: downloading, configuring, and running the compiled binary. Throughout this chapter, we assume you are using the most recent release of Tomcat. As of the time of this writing, the latest version is 7.0.

Tip

It is also possible to install Tomcat by getting Eclipse to download it for you. Provided that you already have WTP installed (how to install this plugin is described later on), when you create a new server under Eclipse and set its type as Apache Tomcat, you can use the Download and Install button on the server definition wizard to install Tomcat. You can even select in which folder you want to install the server...