In addition to Eclipse you will also need a Java Development Kit – JDK 1.5 or above – which you can download from Sun and Apache Tomcat 5.5 or above which you can download from the Apache web site. If you are using Eclipse for Enterprise Java then you can skip down to the section “Configuring the Workspace for Web Development”.Īll Eclipse products can all be downloaded from links on the download page.Įither download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers or download the basic Eclipse IDE Eclipse Galileo (Eclipse classic 3.5.1) and then download the Web Tools Platform project and it’s prerequisites: EMF v2.5 Runtime, EMF XSD v2.5 Runtime and Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). The instructions below use the basic Eclipse for Java and then step through adding on the required web development tools. See the Compare Packages page for a summary of the differences between the versions.Įclipse for Enterprise Java when installed is already setup for web development however it contains more features than we need to BOE web development. We can either use the Eclipse for Enterprise Java which includes the web development tools or we use the basic Eclipse for Java and then add on the web development tools. Packaging the Application in a WAR fileĮclipse is available in various packages depending on your development requirements.Creating a Simple BOE Logon Application.Allowing Tomcat to Compile JSPs that use the BOE SDK.Configuring your Project to reference the BOE SDK.Web Archive – How to create a war file from Eclipse.Configuring the Workspace for Web Development.Configuring Eclipse for Web Development.

Install the Eclipse Plugins for Web Application Development.

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