Eclipse

(Free Web Tutorials)

by Michael Thomas

Eclipse is a Web Tools Platform, including a Java IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which includes editors for Java, JavaServer Pages, HTML,
Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, XML and XML Schema Definition.

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Free Web Tutorials & Resources

Eclipse (a Java IDE) - First Steps - download and install Eclipse, then create a project and import my JavaCert project.
Eclipse Survival Guide - Tips for survival (Need To Know Now and other helps).
Other related "Free Web Tutorials"
- Struts (Free Web Tutorials) - look for Web Tutorials with the words Eclipse in it.
- Tomcat (Free Web Tutorials) - look for Web Tutorials with the words Eclipse in it.
- UML (Unified Modeling Language) (Free Web Tutorials) - look for Web Tutorials on EclipseUML (a UML Tool by Omondo which run in Eclipse)

Resources

www.eclipse.org - Eclipse's Home Page.
Here is a quote from the Eclipse Home Page: "Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform."
www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ - a central website for Eclipse plugins. A must see!!!
- UMLet - free UML plugin for Eclipse.
  - As of 07/15/2011
  - Go to the above Eclipse Plugin Central site.
  - In the left panel click on "UMLet".
  - Now the center panel will display "UMLet - UML Tool for Fast UML Diagrams 11.3"
  - Click on the house looking ICON that has a red roof. (FYI: The download ICON is not enabled.)
  - You will then go to: www.umlet.com
    - WARNING: After you install the products you will have to register to get an install key.
    - Click on the link "Free UML Modeling Tool"
    - Click "Download Now"
      You will be downloading: Visual Paradigm for UML 8.2 Community Edition
      FREE for non-commercial use only!
    - Choose the Installer Option you want.
      - Windows - .exe that you install.
      - Windows (no Install) - .zip file.
    - Click "Get Community Edition FREE for non-commercial use"
      - Downloads: VP_Suite_Windows_5_2_sp1_20110710.exe - 207,505KB
      - Install the Visual Paradigm Suite 5.2 Modules (Pick what you want)
        
        Visual Paradigm for UML 8.2
        
        Smart Development Environment 6.2
        
        Business Process Visual Architect (NO free edition! Free viewer)
        
        Agilian 3.2 (NO free edition! Free viewer)
        
        DB Visual Architect 6.2 - roundtrip DB engineering (NO free edition! Free viewer)
        
        ElaborView 1.1
        
        DB-VA SQL 2.0
      - NOTE: Make sure you choose "Community Edition" for the FREE tools.
    - Notes:
      Community Key - http://linkvp.com/hlldjong/vpumlce.zvpl
      Note: Just open this key (click on the file) and it will install.