Installing Eclipse and Winstone at Home

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These instructions explain how to download and install Eclipse and Winstone for use at home. The intructions explain installation under Windows, but the process should be similar for other platforms. We are happy to help you as best we can with trouble-shooting your home installation, but if you are having problems, we may recommend that you use the CASLab facilities where Eclipse and Winstone are already installed.

After installing Eclipse and Winstone, you should look at how to set up and run your first JSP project.

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Required Packages

You will require all of these packages in order to run web applications under Eclipse. You can download these packages from the following locations.

Installing JDK

Follow the instructions in the install wizard available on Sun's download page.

Installing Eclipse

Download the Eclipse SDK for your operating system and install it.

Under Windows

  • Unzip the Eclipse download into the directory of your choice, e.g., C:\Eclipse.
  • Create a shortcut to eclipse.exe and put it in a convenient location.
  • You can use this shortcut to invoke Eclipse.

Installing Winstone

Unzip winstone.zip to a location of your choice, e.g., C:.

Modify your system path so that the winstone directory is in your path.

Edit winstone/winstone.bat. Modify the winstoneHome and javaHome variables to match your system.

Under mac or linux, you will have to create a script file equivalent in functionality to winstone.bat.

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