Virgo : Install Eclipse Plugins

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Install Eclipse Enterprise/Virgo

• Go to Eclipse Downloads and choose Download virgo-web-server (zip file)

• 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 if the 8080 port is taken by other servers, change the port 8080 to 8380 (this is the port for the spring web server (there are many xml files).
• Unzip virgo-web-server-2.1.0.RELEASE and change the port number from 8080 to 8280 in confing/tomcat-server.xml file
• Start springsourcetoolsuite by running the Eclipse - the name of the file is STS.exe from the directory \Enterprise\Virgo\springsource\sts-2.5.1.RELEASE
• In the server panel you should be able to define
  • SpringSource tc Server Developer Edition (Runtime) v2.1 at localhost
  • Virgo Web Server at localhost

You should be able to run the course sample on both servers

  http://localhost:8080/cs.ecl.enterprise.virgo.hello/  in tc-server-developer-2.1.0.RELEASE
  http://localhost:8280/cs.ecl.enterprise.virgo.hello/  in Virgo Web Server

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

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

To install JUnit follow the instructions:

1. Download JUnit4.x.jar from the JUnit website . The download contains a "junit-4.*.jar" which is the JUnit library.
2. 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).