Java

• A basic/beginners Eclipse tutorial/overview
• Configuring & Using Apache Tomcat: A Tutorial on Installing, Configuring, and Using Tomcat for Servlet and JSP Development. This will link to step by step instruction like:
  • Tutorial: Using Tomcat 6 with Eclipse
  • Tutorial: Installing Tomcat 7 and Using it with Eclipse
• WTP Tutorials – Building and Running a Web Application
• Tips for using Eclipse effectively
• Tips and Tricks (Official site)
• Java Web Programming with Eclipse
• Deploying/Creating Web Apps with Eclipse (pag. 27)
  
  • Deploy project
    – Select “Servers” tab at bottom
    – R-click on Tomcat
    – Choose “Add and Remove”
    – Choose project
    – Press “Add”
    – Click “Finish”
  • Start Server
    – R-click Tomcat at bottom
    – Start (use “Restart” if Tomcat already running)
  • Test URL
    – In a Web Browser (something like: http://localhost/your-app/">http://localhost/your-app/)

Eclispe plugins

Javadoc

• Adding JDK Javadoc in eclipse.
  When you are coding in Eclipse, press CTRL and click on any core Java class name in your source. Eclipse will now show a screen saying you don't have the sources installed. However, in this screen there is a link saying "Attach source...". Click that link and import the src.zip file from your JDK installation directory (src.zip).
  Sample location: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_37\src.zip 
• Adding log4j Javadoc
  Like mentioned above, click the "Attach source..." button -> "Add external folder" -> browse to the log4j folder on your system and choose the "\src\main\java\" folder inside it.
  Sample location: C:\apache-log4j-1.2.17\src\main\java
  Preferred way: in eclipse you can define a "user defined library" that defines the jar to import and its source so that you get the Javadoc in Eclipse. Using a library you can re-use it in other projects without needing to define all this stuff for each project.

Web project structure in Eclipse:

• WebContent.: Regular Web files (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, images, etc.)
• WebContent/some-subdirectory: Web files in subdirectory.
• WebContent/WEB-INF: web.xml (used for servlet mappings)
• WebContent/WEB-INF/lib: JAR files specific to application.
• src/(default package): Unpackaged (default package) Java code. Using the default package is generally a bad choice in Web apps.
• src/somePackage: Java code in somePackage package.

Code templates

• main: generates a main method;
• try (only works inside a method): generates a try catch;