Eclipse and Netbeans claim ....

Both Eclipse and Netbeans claim to be the best / most powerful IDE for Java. Which is telling the truth ?

However, call me paranoid, but it is as if there is a
conspiracy being propagated in the Java developer
community because I can't for the life of me find a
semi-decent tutorial on how to use - and more
importantly, setup - the developer tools
available such as Ant, Netbeans etc.Didn't you find the manual of Ant for example, which explains exactly how to install and use it, or did you find it but don't understand it? If you have a specific question about something you don't understand, please ask it here.
If only Sun would write a so-called meta-tutorial
explaining in idiots terms how to get the bloomin'
tools to work and how one should approach software
development then my productivity would be
significantly improved!! It is the most frustrating
thing: knowing the language but not being able to use
it.Start with the First Steps Tutorial. That explains in detail how to setup the JDK and compile Java programs from the command line.
After you have learned that, download and install Ant and read the manual, and look at example build files to learn how to write a build file yourself. Learn how to use Ant from the command line.
Then download and install Netbeans. Read the Quick Start guides for Netbeans to start learning how to use it.
All the information you need is readily available, you just have to read it and experiment with the stuff to learn how it works. It's not as difficult as it seems - just play with it for a few hours and you'll start to see how it all works.

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Eclipse and Java EE 5

Hi all,
I'm going to develop an application based on Java EE 5.
I'd like to use webservices, EJB 3.0, GlassFish, Portlets and everything should be than connected with JBI, bussiness logic will be modeled with BPEL.
My question is which IDE would be better for me. I liked elipse for my JavaSE, Spring etc. development but I don't know the situation in JEE 5. Will be a problem to use these technologies with eclipse? Is eclipse (WTP?) ready for this project? With which plugins?
Thanks
P.S. I'm only deciding between eclipse and netbeans and I'm not interested in which IDE is little better but if eclipse is roughly on the same level with Java EE 5 and other technologies mentioned.

On 6/7/2010 12:26 PM, Bill Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use Tomcat v6 with Eclipse. For installation, I'm following
> the tutorial
> " http://www.coreservelets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/eclipse. html"
> (Most other installation guides I've read seem to follow the same steps)
>
> I installed Java EE 5 SDK, Tomcat 6.0.16 and Eclipse IDE for Java EE
> developers.
>
> In Eclipse I created a Tomcat server, but when I r click the server, I
> get a message "Port 80 required by Tomcat v6.o server is already in use."
> I rebooted and tried again before starting any other processes and got
> the same message.
> I disconnected my machine from the internet, used 'netstat' to see what
> process might be using Port 80, and observed 0.0.0.0:80 "Listening" but
> nothing "Established." Again tried to start the Tomcat server in
> Eclipse, but got the same Port 80 message.
>
> Any suggestions, before I go nuts?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bill
What do you mean by "I r click the server"? Do you mean in the Servers
view and choose Run or Debug?
Normally, Tomcat comes ready to use on port 8080. You can change this by
doing the following:
1) Expand Server in the Project Explorer view.
2) Exapnd Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost-config
3) Double-click server.xml
4) Search for 8080
5) Verify that you have:
<Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
redirectPort="8443" />
This should mean that Tomcat is using 8080 not 80. If other, change to
8080 and try again.
(80 is usually what your browser is using.)

Zend Studio for Eclipse and Flex - Impossible?

I've been going in circles all day trying to get the Flex
plug-in to work in the Eclipse installation that installs with Zend
Studio for Eclipse.
The offshore dork for Zend said, "No now for plug-in for
Studio." So I guess that means I have to install Eclipse with Zend
Studio for Eclipse and then the Flex plug-in. But it appears the
Flex plug-in is baffled by the Eclipse 3.4 version that installs
with Zend Studio for Eclipse.
Many errors about please choose the correct folder etc. The
installation of the Flex 3.0 plug-in can be completed but fails
when trying to edit an mxml file with, "Could not open the editor:
Assertion failed."
There is a Flex updater to 3.0.1 which claims to support
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Attempting to use the Flex 3.0.1 updater on the Flex 3.0
plug-in installation in the Zend Studio for Eclipse directory
completely befuddles the installer.
Can anyone point me in some new directions for a solution?
Does Adobe have phone support any longer?
cd /

this is the same problem disscused in thread (Flash Builder 4 plugin with eclipse 3.6) http://forums.adobe.com/thread/747394?tstart=0.please follow that thread if any one do not understand this thread problem.

Java Card 2.2.1 in Eclipse or NetBeans

Hi all!
I'm trying to work with my card in a Java Card 2.2.1 development environment like Eclipse or NetBeans to generate and simulate applets but I can't find any plugin that allows me to work with this version.
I searched the forum but not found a possible solution. Does anyone know what can I do?
Thanks in advance

http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189823
my netbeans bug report is now open for one year and 9 months.
It was last updated on Nov 30, 2011:
Anton Chechel <[email protected]> changed:
What |Removed |Added
Target Milestone|7.1 |7.2
but still not closed, so there is a slight hope to see something coming...

Eclipse or Netbeans?

first, i wanna say, "i don't want to invoke a debate, and what i want is only some advice."
then, i think i should tell u something about my situation. last month, i decided to hop from a large company to a comparatively small one which i thought could guarantee a better future. but now i think i may have made a mistake... --they let me handle the hole java team without the BASIC programming tools such as Sun Java Studio or J Builder. they told me the financial budget this year did not allow to buy those softwares, and they would buy those softwares next January.
what can i do ? i cannot let 23 computers without a Programming tool...
so which should i choose? Eclipse or Netbeans or...

and u are right one cannot use one's favorate IDE is
vary bad,That wasn't quite my point. It is bad - think of network effects (people being able to help each other) and decreased "tool maintenance time" when all use the same IDE. It is something that needs to be introduced sooner or later, but it just sounded like you had too much trouble at hand as it alsready is. Changing the environment and switching IDEs at the same time might decrease productivity too much.
Introduce the processes, let people get accustomed to them, and then integrate them with an IDE - with useful plug-ins available for the standard-IDE-to-be they might even voluntarily give up their own choice for the standard if they see that it integrates better into the process.
Like Ultraedit users giving it up in favor of direct groupware and repository access... I saw it happen.

Can't run eclipse & aptana & netbeans[SOLVED]

Hi everyone .After updating my archlinux and when i run "eclipse" or "aptana studio" I have this message without running the program
JVM terminated. Exit code=126
/usr/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /usr/share/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash /usr/share/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.platform_4.4.0.v20140606-1215/splash.bmp
-launcher /usr/share/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /usr/share/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20140603-1326/eclipse_1605.so
-startup /usr/share/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar
--launcher.appendVmargs
-exitdata 90b800d
-product org.eclipse.epp.package.standard.product
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-jar /usr/share/eclipse//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20140415-2008.jar
and "netbeans" not running at all.
Thank you in advance
Last edited by hayderctee (2014-09-06 08:47:34)

I fix the problem after reinstall "jre7-openjdk" package.
Thank you for all.

Migrating Enterprise Application from WSAD 5.1.2 to eclipse or netbeans

Hi Everybody,
I have a Enterprise Application in WSAD 5.1.2 but I want migrate it to eclipse or netbeans
If anybody has done before please provide me the support on the steps involved
How will I generate required stubs and binding files in eclipse or netbeans?

I belive there is no problems for this change, because the versions are the same for java at least for OaS, for weblogic you should see documentation. I think you can try deploying you app to new environment if you get any noclassdeffound error or something like it then you could have problems for versions.
Regards

Problem launching a jsp page with eclipse and tomcat

Hi,
I have just started using eclipse and tomcat for creating dynamic web pages. I tried to launch a jsp page after starting the tomcat server with the URL: http://locahost:8080/HelloWorld/, an error page was displayed as below:
HTTP Status 404 -/
type Status report
message /_
description The requested resource (-) is not available
Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
I didn't get any error at the console and when i just typed http://localhost, a pop up menu saying that the connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost.
I'm not sure what is the problem here. Could it be the permssion to the localhost is not granted by the system as the eclipse IDE is running using linux?
Hope someone can help.
Thanks.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ectom/

Crystal Reports for Eclipse and CR2008

SQL-Server 2005
CR 2008, Ver.12.0.0.683
Crystal Reports for Eclipse Plug-in Details:
all Plug-in-files from Business Objects have the Versions 1.0.4.v1094 or 11.8.0.v20060727 except "CR for Eclipse Dev.Guide": Ver. 1.0.0.v1094
I created a report with CR 2008 and load this report with eclipse. A preview in CR and eclipse is running perfect.
When I bind this report to a jsp I get the error "Es wurde keine Rowsetspalte für das SQL-Ausdrucksfeld "strRefNo" gefunden", in english
"no rowset-column for sql-statement "strRefNo""
General this kind of SQL-statement is not working. This statement is a function which needs first a value from the database.
When this value is fixed in the statement, the report is running in the jsp otherwise I get the error.
When I delete this statement in eclispe, save this report, redo my delete and save the report again, the report is running with jsp!
May be, there is a version conflict between CR and eclipse.
I have to create the reports in CR2008 but I can not save the report in CR2008 to an older version.
Is there a newer version for eclipse, which works with CR2008? I could not find any other version.
Do you have other ideas?
Thanks!
Jens

Hi Bryan,
thank you for your good informations.
I have downloaded the complete new eclipse and I don't get this error anymore.
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java.version=1.6.0_11
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=de_DE
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Fri Feb 06 08:13:34 CET 2009
Unknown Error (java.lang.NullPointerException)
Info
Fri Feb 06 08:13:34 CET 2009
Plug-in Info: Business Objects, an SAP company - 12.2.200.r454
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     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.datafoundation.DFQuery.int(Unknown Source)
     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.datalayer.a.do(Unknown Source)
     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.l(Unknown Source)
     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.b(Unknown Source)
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     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.m.o(Unknown Source)
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     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.h.<init>(Unknown Source)
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     at com.crystaldecisions.reports.dataengine.DataProcessor2.a(Unknown Source)
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How to show Html5 created in eclipse and link to any cloud application like c4C through HCP

Hi Experts,
How to show Html5 created in eclipse and link to any cloud application like C4C through HCP
Regards,
Vijay.

Your question is very unclear, please elaborate what you are trying to achieve.
Also, did you click on the Alert Moderator link? This is for reporting abusive content, spam, points cheating, etc. It should not be used w/o a reason (one of the above) as what it does is putting the content in the Moderators' queue and hiding it from public view.

Installation of J2SE V1.4.2 and NetBeans Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition

I downloaded J2SE V1.4.2 and NetBeans IDE 3.5.8. After this very long download, my ISP disconnected. I re-connected, but am unable to install the download. Please help.
alinda78

I downloaded J2SE V1.4.2 and NetBeans IDE 3.5.8.
After this very long download, my ISP disconnected.
I re-connected, but am unable to install the
e download. Please help.
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Errors when using tomcat and netbeans combo.[Solved]

Hi I'm trying to set up a netbeans/tomcat7 development environment for servlet development.
I have tried this on 2 machines without any success.
The steps I have followed are as follows.
First I installed tomcat7 and netbeans from using pacman, then to be able to configure tomcat from netbeans I made the config files write permission 777, as it's just a development server security is not an issue.
From there I started up netbeans started a new project and set the server to tomcat and pointed the Catalina home dir to /usr/share/tomcat7.
When I try to run the example jsp project I get the following error:
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Java compiler available
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:584)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:392)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:389)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:333)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
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Last edited by darkclown (2011-12-01 05:15:23)

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I would also not run this on the openJDK, in case you are doing that. I would use the proprietary Oracle/Sun JDK. It's in the AUR, or simply download it from Oracle.
I was not even aware that netbeans and tomcat are available from pacman. I always "install" those myself manually (i.e. unpack them into a folder). They are simply Java apps that can be installed anywhere, as long as you point them to a valid JDK.

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i have made all necesary configuration for deploying application using eclipse and ant for the tomcat server.
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also when i use ant by right-clicking on the build.xml file and choose Run as ant.. the process creates a desired .war file in webapps folder of the tomcat server but that war file does not works.
where is the error i cannot figure out.
am attaching the code of build.xml for reference.
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<project name="BecilCTI" default="compile" basedir=".">
<property file="build.properties"/>
<property file="${user.home}/build.properties"/>
<property name="app.name" value="BecilCTI"/>
<property name="app.path" value="/${app.name}"/>
<property name="app.version" value="0.1-dev"/>
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<property name="dist.home" value="${basedir}/dist"/>
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<fileset dir="${catalina.home}/common/lib">
<include name="*.jar"/>
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<fileset dir="${catalina.home}/shared/lib">
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description="Clean build and dist directories, then compile"/>
<target name="clean"
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<echo message="Cleaning all dirs."/>
<delete dir="${build.home}"/>
<delete dir="${dist.home}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="prepare"
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<mkdir dir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
<javac srcdir="${src.home}"
destdir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes"
debug="${compile.debug}"
deprecation="${compile.deprecation}"
optimize="${compile.optimize}">
<classpath refid="compile.classpath"/>
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<copy todir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes">
<fileset dir="${src.home}" excludes="**/*.java"/>
</copy>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="Create binary distribution">


<jar jarfile="${catalina.home}/webapps/${app.name}.war"
basedir="${build.home}"/>

</target>
<target name="install" depends="compile"
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username="${manager.username}"
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localWar="file://${build.home}"/>
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<target name="list"
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<list url="${manager.url}"
username="${manager.username}"
password="${manager.password}"/>
</target>
<target name="prepare">

<mkdir dir="${build.home}"/>
<mkdir dir="${build.home}/WEB-INF"/>
<mkdir dir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/classes"/>

<copy todir="${build.home}">
<fileset dir="${web.home}"/>
</copy>
<mkdir dir="${build.home}/WEB-INF/lib"/>
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<target name="reload" depends="compile"
description="Reload application on servlet container">
<reload url="${manager.url}"
username="${manager.username}"
password="${manager.password}"
path="${app.path}"/>
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path="${app.path}"/>
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So is context.xml actually overwriting the settings found in server.xml?I think so. The way I understand it is the the context.xml file saves you from having to edit server.xml. It is preferred for each web app to do its own config, rather than lumping them all together in server.xml.
And what would be the best way to create the war file? IAt its heart, a WAR is just a zip file with its contents laid out in according to the specification of a web application directory structure.
So the simplest way to make a war file is to zip up your directory structure with a tool like winzip, and rename it to be myApp.war.
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]this tutorial. It explains the basics of website layout, configuration and deployment.
On [url http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/source.html] this page in particular, it includes a link to a basic ant file that you can use as a starting point.
Cheers,
evnafets

Question concerning Eclipse and Tomcat Plugin and JSP

I have a Tomcat-Project that I am working on in Eclipse and quite a few external JARs. Everything works fine, when I run my Test class within my project (in Eclipse). But as soon, as I am trying to call the jsp in my browser I get Exceptions: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger" for example, which tells me that in the browser it can't find the JARs... I'm guessing something's wrong with the classpath but I was thinking that Eclipse would handle those things for me...
I've added the JARs to my project via Eclipse (Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries -> Add external JARs). And I've created a subdirectory for my jsp files and allowed my project to update the .xml file for the settings and all... Do I need to do anything else? What have I done wrong so far, have I forgotten to do?

I solved the problem...

Setting up eclipse and tomcat

Does anyone here have any expertise configuring these two products?(eclipse and tomcat)
I have my tomcat server running and it process them jsp pages just fine. I have also installed the plugin to get tomcat configured with eclispe.
I am just having problems running a jsp file directly from tomcat. it always points to a file on the hd and not to the webapps area like it's supposed to......

Sure - we use that combo for development all the time.
What's the problem specifically? Did you create a new Tomcat project in Eclipse? If you did, then it will automatically add the project's web path as a context to Tomcat, and you can browse directly to it using your browser.
FYI - note that the context that is created is going to point to the eclipse workspace directory - NOT the default webapps directory that you might have configured for Tomcat. That's OK.
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