Eclipse .classpath file relative paths

Hello All.

One of the most annoying aspects of eclipse is the fact that you have to add jar files to your project if you want to use external libraries.
Further more the configuration of these jar file is by default only using absolute paths, so when you try to move the project from one machine to another you need to delete pointers to old jars and add the new jar locations.

We solved this problem by:
1. putting all the project external jar files in a single library called lib in the project top level folder (trunk).
2. Setup an eclipse classpath varible (see this link http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=367962 and look for figure 6-5

In addition I added the .classpath file to the svn. We can now all use this file without modifications.

How to setup Java Dev. Environmernt (Java, Eclipse, Tomcat)

Hello All.

You basically need two things:
1. The Java JDK that can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
2. Install JDK on your machine (in a path without blanks!!!).
3. Setup the environment var JAVA_HOME to point to your new installation.
3. download eclipse (choose the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (163 MB)) package and unzip it in some folder http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
4. download tomcat from the apache site http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
5. Follow the instructions here to setup your env http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-tomcat/index.html

Enjoy