Options and tools

In this section we briefly discuss various tools available to set up a development environment.

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Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source IDE for Java developers and consists of Java Development Tools. Eclipse is written primarily in Java. Eclipse community is focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. Users can extend its functionality by installing plugins written for Eclipse. For more details visit Eclipse web site, and for how to install Eclipse see Installing Eclipse.

Web Tools Platform (WTP)

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project extends the Eclipse platform with tools for developing Web and Java EE applications. It includes source and graphical editors for a variety of languages, wizards and built-in applications to simplify development, and tools and APIs to support deploying, running, and testing applications. For more details visit WTP Project web site.

Geronimo Eclipse Plugin

The Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) provides integration between Geronimo and the Web Tools Platform (WTP). With this plugin, users will be able to use the features in WTP to create, deploy and debug applications on Geronimo.

The Geronimo Eclipse Plugin (GEP) requires the following prerequisite software (all of which is platform specific):

Sun JDK 6.0 (J2SE 6.0)
Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

See Installing Geronimo Eclipse Plugin for specific pre-requisite levels and detailed instructions about GEP installation.

Sun JDK 6.0 can be downloaded from Sun's J2SE 6.0 Downloads site. The Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers can be downloaded from the Eclipse Downloads site. Geronimo 2.2 server can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dist/geronimo/.

Migration tools

JBoss to Geronimo Migration Tool (J2G)

The JBoss to Geronimo Migration Tool (J2G) is an Eclipse plugin designed to assist in migrating the sources of an application written for the JBoss application server or written for Java EE to the Apache Geronimo platform. For more information on using the J2G tool follow this link.