Installing the developing environment

We are using Eclipse (3.7 "indigo") on Ubuntu (11.10 "oneiric").

Installing and updating Eclipse
Install from repositories:

To avoid problems updating eclipse, you should change eclipse owner:

Updating eclipse will also fail, with, if you are using JAVA 7:

After these two hacks, you can start eclipse.

Accept the default workspace folder: /home/jgr/workspace. You may check the option "Use this as the default and do not ask again" Close the Welcome panel.

Select  from the   menu. Available repositories are quite old, to be used.

Open the  preferences, and import the following bookmarks.xml file. This file has the updated repositories to update eclipse and afterwards install the Spring framework.

Update eclipse.

Installing Spring
In Eclipse, select  from the   menu.

Select the  repository from the dropdown list. From the available list, select the 6 packages select in the following screenshot.



Restart Eclipse.