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Setup Eclipse for Web Development.
Information
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Operating system used
Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1 SP 2
Software prerequisites
Eclipse 2.1.1
Procedure
- Select button "Java Perspective".
If this button is not displayed, select button "Open a Perspective" | Other | Java
- Enter a project name (example): mobilefish_demo and press button Next.
- Press button "Add Folder"
- Press button "Create New Folder". The "New Folder" popup window is displayed.
Enter Folder Name: src
Press button OK.
- A message will be displayed, select button Yes.
- Change the default output folder into: mobilefish_demo/WEB-INF/classes
- When Eclipse is installed, it does not automatically include jar files needed for web development.
To add a jar file:
Select tab: Libraries
Press button: Add Variable
- Press button: Edit
- Press button: New
- This is a list of all jar files needed for web development and its location.
| When using servlets, ejb etc. |
J2EE_LIB |
J2EE_HOME/lib/j2ee.jar |
J2EE SDK |
To add a jar file, for example j2ee.jar:
Enter a descriptive name for this file (e.g.: Name = J2EE_LIB)
File: Search the jar file
Press OK button
- Press OK button followed by Cancel button
- Press button: Add Variable
- Select variable J2EE_LIB and press OK button.
- Press Finish button.
- Web applications should be organized (preferred solution) using the following folder
structure:
| <Project> |
The project name. Use a short project name and make it one word (example: mobilefish_demo).
Contains *.html, *.jsp files.
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| <Project>/src |
Contains *.java files |
| <Project>/WEB-INF |
Contains web.xml, tag library descriptor (*.tld) files |
| <Project>/WEB-INF/classes |
Contains *.class, *.properties files |
| <Project>/WEB-INF/lib |
Contains *.jar, *.zip library files |
The src folder contains all the Java sources. You should organise your sources
(preferred solution) in the following packages:
| com.mobilefish.tools |
Contains small standalone applications.
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Create a mobilefish_demo.war file and drop the war file in the jboss deploy directory.
For example: C:\Tools\jboss-3.0.4\server\default\deploy
Note: You do not need to create a war file, just create a folder:
C:\Tools\jboss-3.0.4\server\default\deploy\mobilefish_demo.war
and create the folders (mentioned in the table above), then copy all necessary files
*.html, *.jsp, *.classes, *.xml, etc. in their corresponding folders.
- Start JBoss and enter URL:
http://localhost:8080/mobilefish_demo/index.html
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