Ellipse Tutorial

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Eclipse is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which particularly allows any developments based on the Java language. Nevertheless, Eclipse can also allows to work in C, C++, Perl, PHP, ... This "Open Source" project was originally launched by IBM but many other entities have joined the Eclipse community. For more information on the Eclipse community, i refer you to his official website: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/listofprojects.php.

This workshop is mainly based on the concept of plugin (in conformity with the OSGi standard). All the Eclipse components (JDT - Java Development Tools, PDE - Plugin Development Environmnent, CDT - C / C++ Development Tools, PDT - PHP Development Tools ...) are therefore developed in the form of Eclipse plugins. These plugins can, of course, be used in parallel. For more information on plugins proposed by Eclipse, i refer you to the official website: http://www.eclipse.org/projects/listofprojects.php.

The Ellipse plugin is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that allows the development of Web applications written in Java and using the Ellipse framework. The interest in using the Ellipse plugin and the framework of the same name, is in the productivity obtained (it will continue to grow in importance with the future developments of the framework and the plugin).

The Ellipse plugin proposes (or will propose, because it is currently in a beta version), any tools for the production of Ellipse Web pages, production of web services, production of reusable web components, ....

To manually install the Ellipse plugin on your Eclipse, it is important to understand one thing. In an Eclipse environment, a plugin may depend on another one. This is notably the case of the Ellipse plugin which depends on the JDT plugin and the WTP plugin. Accordingly, if your Eclipse does not integrate the two plugins previously mentioned, the Ellipse plugin may not work properly. For those who are starting from the beginning, i recommend you to directly download the "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers" from the following website http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/: it incorporates all the dependencies required. Once Eclipse is downloaded, take care to install it by simply extracting the file. Warning: of course, a Java runtime environment 6. or 6 as minimum is required.

Then, download the Ellipse plugin by activating this link. Once your downloaded is terminated, you just have to extract the content and to merge it with the contents of your Eclipse. Installing a plugin with Eclipse is no more complicated than this. Nevertheless, be careful with one point: a rebooting of Eclipse is required to take into account this update.

You just have to check that the plugin is properly supported (if the minimum dependencies of the plugin are present). To do this, run Eclipse, then go to the "Window" menu and select the "Preferences ..." submenu. A dialog box to edit the preferences should appear. Check that the preferences page, shown in the screenshot below, appears well: if so, congratulations, your installation is good.