Hi,
I'm trying to create an image for my company's developers so they can simply download it and have Eclipse +Tomcat + Plugins etc - the whole build environment ready to use straight 'out of the box'.
The issue I have is with Eclipse and the JDK. If the developer already has a JDK on their machine; Eclipse will detect the JRE, not the JDK. When developing, they need a JDK instance (not JRE) to be the selected for Eclipse in order to debug in Tomcat. Also, Eclipse doesn't accept relative paths for its JRE entries so I can't even bundle the JDK in my image...
Is there a file in Eclipse's distribution that I can tweak to tell it which JDK to use?
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Maybe I didn't explain myself fully; the developers will download the build environment and it is ignorant of all absolute paths; ie: the developer can copy it where ever they want on their system and all the linkages between Eclipse/Ant/Tomcat/Java are intact. If I simply copied the environment from my machine it would still contain absolute paths (including drive letters, if I was developing on Windows).
To pick a JDK just go to Window--> Preferences--> Java--> Installed JREs.
You can't really make a "workspace" portable across machines.. the best you could do would be to define the same directory structures across the machines.. I usually think of eclipse workspaces as machine dependent, and eclipse projects as portable.
So what I'm hearing is that theres no way to create a development environment with Eclipse and Java referring to eachother via relative paths, so the whole environement can be moved without having to change the JDK path in Eclipse's settings?
ps: We need the JDK rather than JRE because we are using Tomcat in our environment also.
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by: dbkrugerPosted on 2005-09-23 at 08:31:20ID: 14945195
Sounds like this would solve your problem, not the most elegant solution, but on Linux, I can set up my workspace the way I want, and snapshot the whole thing. If I bring it anywhere, everything is the same. So clearly, there are some files in the mess that do the job. If you are setting up developers from scratch, you can just build the entire image of their workspace and hand it to them. That should work in windows as well. Otherwise, maybe someone else knows what the specific file is.
Dov