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Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. Eclipse has no install. It is simply a matter of uncompressing.
Uncompress to c:\apps\
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Setup Package Java
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Launch Eclipse.
Configure Eclipse Editor on Windows
On the Windows environment, the default encoding is not UTF-8. As such modification need to be made ensure special characters work properly.
Editing UTF-8 Files
This article http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t93442.rhtml shows how to do it with a file. I am a bit suspicious if this covers everything though... will check out soon.
All our property files must be UTF-8 with no BOM (Byte Order Marking). For Eclipse to properly edit the UTF-8 property files,
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On a Linux environment the Text file encoding will already default to UTF-8 so you can skip this step. This article http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t93442.rhtml shows how to do it with a file in Windows. I am a bit suspicious if this covers everything though... will check out soon. |
Creation of Web Files in UTF-8
This changes what format and automatic encoding tags used when you use Eclipse wizards to create web file.
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