Saturday, June 24, 2006
Installing JBoss Eclipse IDE onto Eclipse running on Mac, Linux, or MS-Windows
Did you take a hasty look at the JBoss IDE download page, notice there were no builds provided for the Macintosh, and assume JBoss IDE would not run on the Mac?
Well, assume no such thing!
You probably already have the latest version of the Eclipse IDE (3.1.2). So you can just use the update URL defined in the document cited below.
JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Installation Guide:
Ten or twenty minutes later - depending on the speed of your connection and your CPU & disk drive - you will be up-and-running with a fully JBoss-aware version of the Eclipse IDE.
Though at the moment, the documentation above says it is written for JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 - the version you will get is Eclipse IDE 1.6. Fear not, this is a good thing!
Here is what you will get, the document explains:
Pretty good, huh?!!
What is really exciting is that not only do you get support for J2EE 1.4 - you also get support for EJB 3.0!
Not only are you getting support for creating EJBs and stuff like that, as you would expect - you are also getting support for creating web pages!
Well, that is part of J2EE - at least JSP is. But JBoss IDE does not stop with supporting creating JSP pages. They let you create/edit pure HTML pages, CSS files, and Javascript.
They even provide support for shortcuts for common little HTML constructs.
Similar attention has been paid to make it easier to annotate your Java files with XDoclet tags.
You really get a lot with this free IDE. And, yes - it runs on the Mac!
Well, assume no such thing!
You probably already have the latest version of the Eclipse IDE (3.1.2). So you can just use the update URL defined in the document cited below.
JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Installation Guide:
JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Installation
Ten or twenty minutes later - depending on the speed of your connection and your CPU & disk drive - you will be up-and-running with a fully JBoss-aware version of the Eclipse IDE.
Though at the moment, the documentation above says it is written for JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 - the version you will get is Eclipse IDE 1.6. Fear not, this is a good thing!
Here is what you will get, the document explains:
- Extensive and intuitive support for XDoclet.
- The debugging and monitoring of JBoss servers and the controlling of their life cycles.
- An easy way to configure the packaging layout of archives (packed or exploded)
- A simple way to deploy the packaged and/or exploded archive to a JBoss server
- Several J2EE wizards to ease and simplify J2EE development.
- Source code editors for JSP, HTML, and XML
Pretty good, huh?!!
What is really exciting is that not only do you get support for J2EE 1.4 - you also get support for EJB 3.0!
Not only are you getting support for creating EJBs and stuff like that, as you would expect - you are also getting support for creating web pages!
Well, that is part of J2EE - at least JSP is. But JBoss IDE does not stop with supporting creating JSP pages. They let you create/edit pure HTML pages, CSS files, and Javascript.
They even provide support for shortcuts for common little HTML constructs.
Similar attention has been paid to make it easier to annotate your Java files with XDoclet tags.
You really get a lot with this free IDE. And, yes - it runs on the Mac!
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