I Love Eclipse but now i prefer ant scripts to build and deploy my applications. Yet IDE is IDE which you will resort to in most of the occasions. Already my Eclipse is fat with Spring IDE plug-ins and now i have turned towards JBoss Seam. Spring and Seam are two powerful end-to-end frameworks though i prefer to stay with Spring a lot. I simply love it. Now i am installing JBoss Tools (Set of eclipse ide plug-ins JBoss ships for easy and rapid development).
Eclipse’s Update Manager can be found here (Eclipse IDE: Menu Bar: Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install.
Select “Search for new features to install” radio button and click next. Click “New Remote Site” button on your left of the dialog box, to which you will be prompted with Name and URL of the remote site. JBoss eclipse update URL is available at “http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/”. This URL will not open in a browser. Just enter this in the prompt box. After clicking Ok, you will be come back to the same screen of the main dialog.
Now, the remote site appears in the list as a new item (with the name you entered earlier) with a checkbox. Select it and click Finish. If your machine is properly connected to the internet, your downloads will start. You can also select the button “Run as background” to continue with your other works.
Today, i would like to develop a sample application in Seam and a sample DAO using Spring JDBCTemplate, all though my rich Eclipse IDE.
Will post those samples here soon.
