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This article is being pulled from the www.tinframework.homeip.net. |
The BonsaiFramework uses a portable development environment that is composed of the following components,
- Eclipse
- Java
- Tomcat
To get quickly started download the package that matches your operating system. Unzip the package and launch Eclipse.
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Following the portability principle of the Bonsai Framework there is not installer. Just unzip and launch Eclipse. |
Package | Operating Systems |
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Win.32bit_Eclipse.x.x-JRE.1.6_18_32-bit-Tomcat.6.0.26_x86_32-bit.zip | Windows XP - Windows 7 |
Win.64bit_Eclipse.x.x-JRE.1.6_18_64-bit-Tomcat.6.0.26_x86_32-bit.zip | Windows 64-bit XP - Windows 7 |
Linux_Eclipse.x.x-JRE.1.6_18_32-bit-Tomcat.6.0.26.zip | Ubuntu 8.x - Current |
Win.64bit_Eclipse.x.x-JRE.1.6_18_64-bit-Tomcat.6.0.26_x86_32-bit | Ubuntu 64-bit 8.x - Current |
The remainder of this document provides details about how to build/adjust the portable environment yourself.
Eclipse Setup
Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. Eclipse has no install. It is simply a matter of uncompressing.
Uncompress to c:\apps\
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
All our property files must be UTF-8 with no BOM (Byte Order Marking). For Eclipse to properly edit the UTF-8 property files,
- Window, Preferences
- General, Content Types, Text,
- Java Properties File
- Change Default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Click Update
- JSP
- Change Default encoding from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Click Update
- Java Properties File
- General, Workspace *
- Text file encoding, Other
- Change Cp1252(this may differ depending on your OS) to UTF-8
- Click Apply
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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.
- Window, Preferences, Web
- Encoding, change the following to ISO 10646/Unicode(UTF-8),
- CSS Files
- HTML Files
- JSP Files
At this point there are two methods of setting up the Project, manual or automatic.