Setting up Java EE and Eclipse on Microsoft Windows

Following are the steps to install Java EE and Eclipse on Microsoft Windows:

1. Download Java EE Development Kit with JDK from Oracle. Choose a version that includes the GlassFish server.
2. Double-click and install. Assuming that you installed at c:\glassfish3.
3. Download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from eclipse.org
4. Unzip to c:\
5. Open command prompt by clicking of the start icon and typing cmd in the search field. Press enter.
6. Type cd c:\eclipse
7. By default, eclipse only looks for JRE within its folders, so you need to specify the location on your JRE. To do this, type eclipse -vm c:\glassfish3\jdk\jre\bin\bin\javaw.exe
8. Obviously, you would not want to run this long command every time. So you need to change eclipse.ini settings. Open c:\eclipse.ini with a non-formatting editor like notepad. Add the following just above lines above –vmargs-vm c:\glassfish3\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe

and save the changes.

Your eclipse.ini should look like the following:

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0.v20110502.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.100.v20110502
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vm
c:\glassfish3\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m

double-click on the eclipse.exe icon to start eclipse. You might also want to add a shortcut to the desktop.