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Introduction

Having a a portable environment to easily share among developers using the zero footprint service approach if possible.

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Warning

Let's try and do Eclipse using Java 64 but then have Tomcat 32-bit use Java 32-bit.

Eclipse Setup

You want to download the portal (tar.gz for Linux, zip for Windows) version of Eclipse and not the installer.

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Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers.

Select Location

Select a drive and directory your computer where you will be keeping everything. The Bonsai Framework uses,

  • Windows = C:\apps\
  • Linux or Unix = /home/[your home directory]/apps for example, /home/tpham/apps/

Setup Package Java

Download Oracle's JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and follow the manual Java setup instructions.

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  • Windows = C:\apps\eclipse\jre1.6.0_18
  • Linux or Unix = /home/tpham/apps/eclipse/jre1.6.0_18

Modify eclipse.ini

Modify the eclipse.ini to point to your JRE with by adding -vm and a reference to Java.

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Info

See Specifying the JVM at the Eclipse Wiki for more deteails.

Setup Tomcat

Similar to Eclipse, Tomcat also is also packaged without an installer. For windows we download the x86 .zip and for Linux or Unix download the .tar.gz file. Following the Bonsai Framework standards, decompress to the following folder,

  • C:\apps\eclipse-servers\apache-tomcat-6.0.24
  • /home/tpham/apps/eclipse-servers/apache-tomcat-6.0.24

Launch Eclipse

Start Eclipse by running the Eclipse executable included with the release. In our example the directories would be,

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I need to test on a fresh machine before saying 100%.

Configure Eclipse to Use Tomcat

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Ok this is where we have a problem. Once the Tomcat instance is created there seems to be no way to dynamically specify the various classpath entries... double-click on the server, Overview, Open Launch configuration, Classpath.

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