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= Eclipse Web Tools =

'''How to install Eclipse in Ubuntu'''.

Including Web tools, Apache Tomcat, Sun's JDK and icons

There are many ways to do this. This is only one method, but it works.

This is based on a howto by IvarAbrahamsen and information gathered from many references. As the old university excuse goes: "Copy from one source is plagiarism, copy from two or more is research".

Ubuntu does come with many eclipse packages in the universal repositories. Unfortunetly (or not) these all rely on the GCJ compiler, and not the genuine Sun one. Many still prefer Sun's java and this howto show how to use it.

Before Dapper, Ubuntu 6.06, Sun's licenses were not not compatible with Ubuntu's repositories and therefor had to be seperatly downloaded. From Dapper there are packages in the multiverse repository. This howto creates a .deb package from a download.


== Download software ==

=== Sun JDK ===
If you chose not to use the ''sun-java5'' package in multiverse, then download the latest JDK from Sun., which currenly is Tiger, 1.5. Choose the latest jdk update, and then choose the self extracting non rpm file, eg. jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

=== Eclipse Web Tools ===
Download the latest release of web tools from eclipse.
I use the full package of release 1.0. E.g. wtp-all-in-one-sdk-1.0.2-linux-gtk.tar.gz.
(Ps. its about 170Mb so might take awhile depending of bandwidth.)

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/

=== Apache Tomcat ===
Fetch the latest apache tomcat binary.
Choose the core tar.gz file.

http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi

== Install packages ==

See InstallingSoftware.

=== Sun's Java JDK ===

==== Install from Repository ====
Install the {{{sun-java5}}} package from {{{multiverse}}}.

==== Download ====
Especially if using Breezy or earlier install {{{fakeroot}}} and {{{java-package}}} from {{{universe}}} to be able to repackage the jdk as a {{{.deb}}}.

Once that is done we create the {{{.deb}}} jdk package.
{{{
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_xxxx-linux-i586.bin
}}}

Some interaction is required, and there will be the odd permission error etc, but should be fine.

Then we install this new package
{{{
sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5xxxx+updatexxx_i386.deb
}}}

Make Sun's Java your java...
{{{
sudo update-alternatives --config java
}}}

Choose the Sun JDK

=== Apache Tomcat ===

Untar download and copy to /opt
{{{
tar xzf apache-tomcat-5.5.15.tar.gz
sudo mv apache-tomcat-5.5.15 /opt/
cd /opt
sudo chown -R root:root apache-tomcat-5.5.15
sudo chmod -R +r apache-tomcat-5.5.15
sudo chmod +x `sudo find apache-tomcat-5.5.15 -type d`
sudo ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.15 tomcat
}}}

Edit tomcat users
{{{
sudoedit /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
}}}

And add an admin and your own?
{{{
<user name="admin" password="admin" roles="manager,admin" />
<user name="yourname" password="blah" roles="manager,admin" />
}}}

=== Eclipse ===

Extract the eclipse download and move to opt.
{{{
tar xzf wtp-all-in-one-sdk-1.0-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse cd /opt sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
sudo chmod +x `sudo find eclipse -type d`
}}}

Then create an eclipse executable in your path
{{{
sudo touch /usr/bin/eclipse
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse
sudoedit /usr/bin/eclipse
}}}

With this contents
{{{
#!/bin/sh
#export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse"

$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*
}}}
Then create a gnome menu item
{{{
sudoedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
}}}

With this contents
{{{
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/icon.xpm
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development;
StartupNotify=true
Configure
}}}

In dapper you have to give a bit of a kick to pick up the new folder in the menu.
Open ''Applications/Accessories/Alacarte Menu Editor'',
Go to ''Programming'' and click on Eclipse to hide then again to make it visible.
This should make the folder show up in the menu.

== Finished ==

You now have a working eclipse. But run this command first to initialise the set up.
{{{
/opt/eclipse/eclipse -clean
}}}

Then from here on you can run from the menu item applications/programming/eclipse

== Add Projects ==

Follow this tutorial to create web projects and to add tomcat as the server for this project, [http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/tutorials/BuildJ2EEWebApp/BuildJ2EEWebApp.html]

The Tomcat publishing is bothersome if your project structure is not a particular standard. IvarAbrahamsen have started a document on how to set up your projects. [http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/project.html]

== References ==

    * Ivar Abrahamsen's original howto http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/install.html
    * Java http://java.sun.com
    * Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org
    * Web Tools http://www.eclipse.org/webtools
    * Ubuntu Eclipse http://wiki.ubuntu.com/EclipseIDE
    * Apache Tomcat http://tomcat.apache.org
    * [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/coldrick?entry=java_development_on_ubuntu_part Coldrick blog]
    * [http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/community/tutorials/BuildJ2EEWebApp/BuildJ2EEWebApp.html Web Tools Tutorial]
    * [http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=f171bafc-abce-4d2e-a18b-3aba4ad32c52 Don Parks Daily Habit]
    * How to create generic projects in Eclipse http://flurdy.com/docs/eclipse/project.html
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