Virgo : Install Eclipse Plugins

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Install Eclipse Enterprise/Virgo

Download springsource-tool-suite-2.5.1.RELEASE-e3.6.1-win32-installer.exe from SpringSource Tool Suite (attention at operating system 32/64 bit).
Unzip the downloaded file in /Eclipse_Platform/Enterprise/Virgo directory.
Start Eclipse (click the eclipse executable file in /Eclipse_Platform/Enterprise/Virgo/eclipse directory
In the dialog box:Workspace Launcher -> Workspace type: ./wskp/{app-type} where {app-type} could be: hello or simple or lab

Install sts-2.5.1.RELEASE by running Sspringsource-tool-suite-2.5.1.RELEASE-e3.6.1-win32-installer.exe (the name of Eclipse is STS.exe
In the directory tc-server-developer-2.1.0.RELEASE/templates change the port 8080 to 8280 (this is the port for the spring web server (there are many xml files).

For this course you will be using the workspace defined in /Eclipse_Platform/Enterprise/Virgo/eclipse/wksp/...

The root directory for this course is: Eclipse_Platform Basics/_{eclipse subdirectory} OSGi/_{eclipse subdirectory} RCP/_{eclipse subdirectory} Mobile/ Android/_{eclipse subdirectory} BlackBerry/_{eclipse subdirectory} Enterprise/ Virgo/_{eclipse subdirectory} WTP/_{eclipse subdirectory}		where: {topic} must be: basics or osgi or rcp or android or blackberry or virgo or wtp {subject} must be: hello or simple or lab {subpack} a subpackage name (if need it for complex apps)

Check your working environment by running the Hello Sample from Course Repository

You may also want to install JUnit Library to be able to debug your applications.

To install JUnit follow the instructions:

Download JUnit4.x.jar from the JUnit website . The download contains a "junit-4.*.jar" which is the JUnit library.
To make JUnit available in your Java project you have to add the the JUnit library file to your Java classpath. (If you do not know how to do it, please use this Eclipse tutorial to learn how to add jar files to your Eclipse project).