December 18th, 2009
11:33 am
Posted under Java
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Tags Eclipse, Eclipselink, Glassfish, ICEfaces, Tomcat, Tutorial
- Decide on component versions to be used by building a cross compatibility matrix. Generally you will want to install the latest production builds of all components consistent with full cross compatibility. Also to be considered are the various tool bundles available, which can simplify installation and configuration by allowing multiple tools to be installed from a single kit. However, many of the bundles overlap, so this needs to be taken into account (in addition to the compatibility matrix) so that you do not end up installing multiple versions of the same tool – for example, Java EE can come with the JDK or with Eclipse. In my case, I am using an Eclipse bundle which includes Java EE.
- Download and install the chosen Java SE JDK.
- Download and install Glassfish (Eclipse has a plugin for, and therefore a dependency on, Glassfish so we do the latter first).
- Download and install Eclipse. My bundle included Java EE 5 and Eclipselink and all the web tools.
- Install the Glassfish Plugin for Eclipse.
- Download ICEfaces (e.g. v1.8.x). This just needs unzipping to any desired target folder (e.g. E:\ICEfaces-1.8.x). The distribution contains full documentation for getting started, running tutorials, and development.
- Download and Install the Eclipse ICEfaces plugin.
- Download Tomcat if required. You may just want to use Glassfish as your servlet container, but in my case some development projects will use JSF/ICEfaces/Tomcat without Java EE. I have in the past used the windows service installer version, which is a self installing .exe and installs/runs Tomcat as a service. However note that this does not work under Windows 64-bit if you are using a 32 bit JVM. See here for a manual install process from the zip kit to give you all the functionality of the windows installer version, including run as a service, configuration utility, and system tray monitor/utility.
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