installing Eclipse IDE?

[hakka]

Hello everyone,

I'm experience developer but quite new to Java and mac development. Need some guidance on installing Eclipse IDE and JBuilder 2008 in particular.

My system is OSX 10.5.5

Thanks in advance

P.S. Read apple already, still not clear how to do it

[medopal]

hey

from this page choose the appropriate package u want, ithink u need the 2nd one, "Eclipse for Java Developers", the first one is for Java Enterprise developers.

From the right side choose Mac OS X, and u will get a tar.gz file.
Extract it anywhere on ur Mac, and u r done.

u will just need to set the Java Home path, from inside Eclipse, open the Preferences.
From the left menu, under Java, you will find Installed JREs. If Eclipse didnt find ur JRE by default then u should add it.
by default is should be here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home

Just being curios, why do u need JBuilder, is it for the User Interface building? If so then u should try NetBeans IDE, its from Sun, and it has a very powerful UI builder, better yet, its free.

I prefer Eclipse for large projects, but Netbeans when i want to build clean and quick user interfaces.

HTH

[hakka]

Thanks medopal for the detailed and very helpful response. I really appreciate it.

JBuilder2008 now comes for free in TurboEdition. Just want to give it a try.

Also wanna develop some user interface for VMWare VIX SDK to be able to manage VMware machines on ESX server.

Regards
Alex

[medopal]

hi Alex, well that sounds like an interesting application.
I never played with Vmware SDK. Does it have any Java APIs? Can u post some info how u will use it? and what features you will put in the interface u r developing. (if its not confeditional of course)

[hakka]

You think so ? I bet it will be interesting for a few geeks only
Because it seems like crazy combination - using mac front-end to control linux hypervisor running windows

Yes it does have an API in perl, java, c++, and SOAP. With lil bit of examples. For mac development the most usable are java and SOAP probably. C++ requires library which is presented for windows and linux only. But I think its anyway SOAP calls wraps.

Basically its(VIX) allows you to do anything on remote ESX/ESXi server - from running/stopping to even cloning,exporting Virtual machines. There are no remote console view (like remote desktop), but you can utilize ms remote desktop app or any VNC like app.

For a moment i will go for dashboard little app consuming SOAP calls. Later maybe some carbon app.

[medopal]

that seems really cool. , i like integrations and crazy combinations

Hope we can see some screenshots or maybe a video after its done

Good luck