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Preparing to Develop a Portal Based on the Sample Residential Portal

The following instructions describe how to set up a development environment that uses Eclipse and Tomcat on a Solaris platform. If you want to use Eclipse and Tomcat on a different operating system, see the following Web sites:

To get ready to develop a portal based on the sample residential portal:

  1. Download and install Eclipse from

    http://www.eclipse.org

  2. Download the Tomcat plug-in for Eclipse from

    http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatPlugin.html

  3. Unzip the plug-in into the Eclipse installation directory.
  4. Download Tomcat from

    http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat

  5. Install Tomcat:
    mkdir $HOME/eclipse
    cd $HOME/eclipse
    unzip /tmp/eclipse-SDK-2.0.2-solaris-motif.zip
    unzip /tmp/tomcatPluginV201.zip
    cd $HOME
    gzip –dc /tmp/tomcat-4.1.18.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  6. Start Eclipse.
  7. Configure the Tomcat plug-in.

    Select Window > Preferences > Tomcat, and configure the Tomcat version and the path where you installed Tomcat.


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