Set Up Eclipse Enviroment For JavaEE Development

If you will develop application using eclipse with java enterprise edition(java ee) there are 3 things you need to install

1. JDK 1.5
2. Eclipse Java EE IDE
3. Apache Tomcat Server
4. Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher Plug-in

First you need to install Java Developer Kit while i wrote this article the latest version is JDK 6 with update 14.You can download from this link.

Second you download your IDE for enterprise development there lots of IDE for java EE development but i prefer to use Eclipse here is link for the eclipse.You will download Eclipse EE version.

Third thing to do is downloading Apache tomcat server which is one of the most useful open source project in the world.If you wanna user another application server you can look at IBM’s Websphere too. Here is a link for the Apache Tomcat you can download from here.

Last thing to do is insted of using Tomcat as a windows service you can manage it inside of Eclipse with Eclipse Tomcat Launcher Plug-in.Just download the plugin .zip file and unzip it to Eclipse plugin directory.You can download it from here.

Create new server and  show the Apache Tomcat server to Eclipse as default application server.Then develop your Java EE applications.

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