Eclipse - Ctrl+Space does it all!!! :D

I am a huge Eclipse IDE fan. It reduces development time by a huge factor. If you are well-versed with the keyboard shortcuts, writing a java program in eclipse takes few minutes once your logic is in place. Browsing through other related projects, adding jars to your project, building and testing, it makes it so much simpler!!!! Whoever came up with this IDE funda - wow :) I remember writing programs on my notepad!! Of course, you realize how dependent you have become on IDE's during Coding Interviews..lol... imagin pressing Ctrl+Space on collabedit so it would suggest functions for the String class... :P.

Anyway, getting a hang of project set ups in Eclipse can sometimes be a pain and might make you not like Eclipse, which I dont wannnttt :) So to increase the fan following for eclipse, I'll share a few project setups specific to the development projects that one might use.

Setting up web development environment in eclipse

1. Make sure you have java - jre1.6.0_07 and jre6

2. Set environment variables for the same

CLASSPATH = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\lib\ext\QTJava.zip;%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar

JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07

JRE_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07

PATH = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\FileNet\IDM;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\WBEM;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Tealeaf;%CATALINA_HOME%\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin

3. Create your dynamic web project

4. Go to project->Properties->Server

Add server

Download and install Tomcat Apache 7 through eclipse

5. Set up the server properties as follows

6. Set environ variable for catalina

CATALINA_HOME = C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.29

7. Change port number in the server.xml file of Tomcat if needed…only 8080-8081

8. Create jsps in WEB-INF

9. Create servlets in Java Resources

10. Make sure to do servlet mapping in web.xml

11. This is how the hierarchy/ folder structure will look like.

 Hope it helps!! I will come back with maven set up in Eclipse :)

Cheers :)