Preparing your environment

From Plex-XML

Tutorial workflow: Plex-XML tutorial main page → Preparing your environment → Extract the tutorial from CVS → Restore the tutorial DB → Tutorial Plex → Tutorial Eclipse → Tutorial application user guide → Tutorial debug → Tutorial Log → Help text Wiki

Components you need to install in your deveopment environment before you can work with Plex-XML

Java SDK >= 5.0

For Plex-XML it is sufficient to install only the JDK. It is not necessary to install all the demos and the JRE.

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Plex 6.0

Please make sure you have installed CA Plex 6.0. incl. PTF 47.012

Tomcat 6.0

We recommend to carry out local testing on your PC during development. For this purpose you will need to install a local servlet engine.

http://tomcat.apache.org/index.html

Eclipse >= 3.2

Eclipse will be your IDE to maintain various Plex-XML files and to deploy your application.

http://www.eclipse.org/

ExtJs 2.x

Ext is an JavaScript library, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting. While it may not be distributed within another development tool you need to download and install it by your own. Please be sure to read the license file because there is an open source and a commercial version available.

Additional but optional tools

XML Buddy

XSLT plugin for Eclipse

JSEclipse

JavaScript Plugin for Eclipse

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/jseclipse/

CVS (Concurrent Versions System)

A CVS-Client is already included in Eclipse.

MySQL 5.x

MySQL is the default DB for the Plex-XML Tutorial. But you can also use another data base (see the compatibility list.

JDBC database connection driver

MySQL JDBC Driver
- Download the MySQL JDBC driver from (http://www.mysql.com/products/connector/)
- Unpack the zip and copy mysql-connector-java-5.x.y-bin.jar to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\lib or wherever you installed your Tomcat

JDBC for MS SQL-Server

Copy the jtds-1.2.jar (JDBC-Driver JAR) or a later version to your tomcat/common/lib directory.

http://jtds.sourceforge.net/

JTOpen IBM Toolbox for i5 / AS400

The IBM Toolbox for Java / JTOpen is a library of Java classes supporting the client/server and internet programming models to a system running OS/400 or i5/OS.

Copy the JDBC-Driver to your tomcat/common/lib directory.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jt400

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

http://www.getfirebug.com/

--> Firebug may slow down some sites. Look here for more infos: http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2007/08/firebug-slow/

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Firebug may slow down some sites. Look here for more infos: http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2007/08/firebug-slow/