Complete this section before the seminar to actively run examples.
A java IDE is useful but not necessary to working with uPortal. This seminar will use Eclipse. To participate in the walk through actively and most easily we recommend that you bring a laptop with wireless network capability and install the following software before you arrive. If you cannot do this, you can still get the most out of the seminar by browsing the materials available in the JA-SIG repository at. The conference meeting rooms will have good wireless service. We will have CDs available with an Eclipse workspace with uPortal project checked out from CVS. This will be the basis of the examples presented.
The list below includes the steps to complete if you want to run the examples and exercises. Warning, this is not a cookbook!
- Download JDK 5.0 Update 6 or 7 from Sun and install http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp or Java 2 SE 5.0 from Apple for OS X.
- Download and install Eclipse 3.1.2 from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1.2-200601181600/index.php.
- Add sysdeo Tomcat plug in by grabbing the zip file at http://www.sysdeo.com/sysdeo/content/download/393/4930/file/tomcatPluginV31.zip and expanding into the eclipse/plugins directory.
- Install Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.28 from the Jakarta site at http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi#5.0.28
- Launch Eclipse
- Go to window>preferences>Java>Installed JREs and add the jdk you installed.
- Go to window>preferences>Tomcat and select Version 5.x and set Tomcat home to the location where you installed Tomcat.
- Download and expand HSQLDB http://hsqldb.org/
- To make browsing xml in Eclipse easy download and install a trial version of the Oxygen XML Eclipse plug-in from http://www.oxygenxml.com/register.html
You will be able to use the Eclipse project created for the seminar.