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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

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JBoss Tools 3 Developers Guide

Overview of this book

JBoss Tools consist of the best Java frameworks and technologies placed together under the same "roof". Discovering JBoss Tools is like exploring a cave; at first everything seems unknown and complicated, but once you become familiar with the main features of the Tools, you will start to feel at home. This is the first book in the market on JBoss Tools, waiting to assist you to throw away all the tiny, dedicated tools you have used earlier, thus helping you to reduce the time you spend on developing a Java application. This book will explore the tools that will help you to build Hibernate, Seam, JSF, Struts, Web Services, jBPM, ESB, and so on and show you how to use them through screenshots, examples, and source code. JBoss Tools comes with a set of dedicated wizards, generators, editors, reverse engineering capabilities, configuration files, templates, syntax highlighting, and more for each of these technologies. Just choose the technologies, and JBoss Tools will glue them together in amazing Java web applications. This book will show you how to develop a set of Java projects using a variety of technologies and scenarios. Everything is described through JBoss Tools "eyes". After we settle the project (or scenario) that will be developed, we configure the proper environment for the current tool (the selected projects cover the main components of a web application, with regard to the backstage technology). We continue by exploring the tool to accomplish our tasks and develop the project's components. A cocktail of images, theoretical aspects, source code, and step-by-step examples will offer you a complete insight into every tool. At the end, we deploy and test the project. In addition, every chapter is rich with pure notions about the underlying technology, which will initiate into you or remind you of the basic aspects of it. It will also show you complete and functional applications, and get you familiar with the main aspects of every tool. By the end you will have enough information to successfully handle your own projects with JBoss Tools.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
JBoss Tools 3 Developer's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Configuring the JBoss Portal bundle under Eclipse IDE


It's time to configure the JBoss Portal bundle under Eclipse IDE. Configuring the JBoss Portal bundle is a goal that can be accomplished by following the example from the Adding a WTP Runtime in Eclipse and Adding a WTP Server in Eclipse sections in JBoss AS Tools, that is, Chapter 2. Nevertheless, here are some clues that you may find useful during this job (adjust the following paths and names according to your favorites):

  • Select a JBoss 4.2 Runtime from the available runtimes.

  • Use the name JBoss Portal 4.2 for the JBoss 4.2 Runtime.

  • The home directory of JBoss 4.2 Runtime is C:\Packt\jboss-portal-2.7.0.GA.

  • The recommended JRE is version 5.0 (4.0 and 6.0 are also supported).

  • The selected configuration should be default (the JBoss Portal, represented by the jboss-portal.sar archive, is placed in the ${JBOSS_PORTAL_BUNDLE_HOME}/server/default/deploy folder).

  • Use the name JBoss Portal 4.2 Server for the JBoss Portal bundle.

  • The deploy directory...