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This page describes how to setup your development environment to compile/deploy [AppFuse] or [StrutsResume] from the command line. This is how I currently have things setup and what I advise clients to use when we use AppFuse as a baseline for webapp development.

This page describes how to setup your development environment to compile/deploy [AppFuse] or [StrutsResume] from the command line. After setting this up, you might want to checkout [HowTo Run Ant in Eclipse|AppFuseEclipse]. This is how I currently have things setup and what I advise clients to use when we use AppFuse as a baseline for webapp development.

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# Download the latest JDK (J2SE SDK) from [http://java.sun.com]. As of 11/6/2003, this is [1.4.2|http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html]. Choose the __SDK__ link from under "Download J2SE v 1.4.2_02" for your respective platform.

# Download the [latest J2EE Bundle|http://java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html#sdk] from [http://java.sun.com]. As of 11/6/2003, this is [1.4 Beta 2|http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download-beta2.html]. This will be used for compiling AppFuse or Struts-Resume (XDoclet requires javax.ejb.* and javax.servlet.* in the classpath when building).

# Download the [latest Tomcat release|http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi] from [http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat]. At the time of this writing, it's [4.1.29|http://www.oss.redundant.com/pub/apache/jakarta/tomcat-4/v4.1.29/]. __DON'T__ get the LE version or you'll have to add DBCP (database connection pool) and JavaMail (for e-mail) JARs.

# Download the [latest Ant release|http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi] from [http://ant.apache.org]. Currently, this is 1.5.4.

# Download the [latest MySQL release|http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-4.0.html] from [http://www.mysql.com]. Currently, this is 4.0.16.

# Download the latest JDK (J2SE SDK) from [http://java.sun.com]. As of 07/12/2005, this is [1.4.2_08|http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22&PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_08-oth-JPR&SiteId=JSC&TransactionId=noreg]. AppFuse should work with 1.5 if you'd like to use that. Here's [my experience|http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd?anchor=playing_with_jdk_5_0]. Note that Cactus has been removed from AppFuse in 1.6 and Cargo (used for testing JSPs) doesn't work with Tomcat 5.5.x yet.

# Download the [latest Tomcat release|http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi] from [http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat]. At the time of this writing, it's [5.0.28|http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.28/]. __DON'T__ get the LE version or you'll have to add DBCP (database connection pool) and JavaMail (for e-mail) JARs.

# Download the [latest Ant release|http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi] from [http://ant.apache.org]. AppFuse 1.6+ requires 1.6.2 or greater.

# Download the [latest MySQL release|http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html] from [http://www.mysql.com]. Currently, this is 4.0.21.

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# Install the J2SE SDK (a.k.a. JDK) and J2EE bundle in the SDKs directory - keeping the directory names intact.

# Install Tomcat in the Tools directory - I usually name the install directory "jakarta-tomcat-x" where x is the current version (i.e. 4.1.29).

# Install the J2SE SDK (a.k.a. JDK) in the SDKs directory - keeping the directory names intact.

# Install Tomcat in the Tools directory - I usually name the install directory "jakarta-tomcat-x" where x is the current version (i.e. 5.0.28).

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# Create a "Source" directory on your hard drive (this is where we'll put all the source code for our projects).

# Create a "Source" directory on your hard drive (this is where we'll put all the source code for our projects). On *nix, I usually create a "dev" folder in my home directory.

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- j2eesdk-1.4-b2

- j2sdk-1.4.2_02

- j2sdk-1.4.2_05

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- apache-ant-1.5.4

- jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29

- apache-ant-1.6.2

- jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28

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# ''I'm on Windows 2000 Server, so please update this with XP instructions if needed.'' Click on the __Advanced__ Tab and then click the __Environment Variables__ button.

# Click on the __Advanced__ Tab and then click the __Environment Variables__ button.

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** JAVA_HOME = %SDKS_HOME%\j2sdk-1.4.2_02

** J2EE_HOME = %SDKS_HOME%\j2sdkee-1.4-b2

** ANT_HOME = %TOOLS_HOME%\apache-ant-1.5.4

** CATALINA_HOME = %TOOLS_HOME%\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29

** JAVA_HOME = %SDKS_HOME%\j2sdk-1.4.2_05

** ANT_HOME = %TOOLS_HOME%\apache-ant-1.6.2

** CATALINA_HOME = %TOOLS_HOME%\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28

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* I use [Eclipse|http://www.eclipse.org] on Windows for editing .java files. I install it in %TOOLS_HOME%\eclipse. I still use Ant to build and deploy, but the CVS versions of AppFuse and StrutsResume does contain the .classpath and .project files for Eclipse. Additionally, AppFuse has project files for [Intellij's IDEA|http://www.intellij.com] (version 3.0.5). I'll write a HowTo in the next few days on running Ant in either of these IDEs. The good news is I've got it working, now I just have to document it.

* I use [Eclipse|http://www.eclipse.org] on Windows for editing .java files. I install it in %TOOLS_HOME%\eclipse. I still use Ant to build and deploy, but the CVS versions of AppFuse and StrutsResume does contain the .classpath and .project files for Eclipse. Additionally, AppFuse has project files for [Intellij's IDEA|http://www.intellij.com] (version 4.5+). To see how you can run Ant in Eclipse, check out my [AppFuse with Eclipse HowTo|AppFuseEclipse].

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# Setup a bug tracking system. Popular (free) choices are [Bugzilla|http://www.bugzilla.org/] and [Scarab|http://scarab.tigris.org/]. The best one I've seen is [JIRA|http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/] ([demo|http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa]), but I've yet to convice a client to shell out the $800 for it.

# Setup a bug tracking system. Popular (free) choices are [Bugzilla|http://www.bugzilla.org/] and [Scarab|http://scarab.tigris.org/]. The best one I've seen is [JIRA|http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/] ([demo|http://jira.atlassian.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa]), but I've yet to convince a client to shell out the $800 for it.

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