Setting Up your IDE to work with GigaSpaces

Summary: Setting up your IDE to Work With GigaSpaces

Follow these steps to prepare your development environment:

1. Ensure you have a JDK installed - preferably version 1.5 or higher.
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   Checking your JDK version

   To check your installed Java version:

   1. Open a command line window.
   2. Run java -version
   3. A response similar to this suggests you have a JDK installed:

      java version "1.5.0_12"
      Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_12-b04)
      Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_12-b04, mixed mode)

   4. It's also a good practice to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. This will allow GigaSpaces XAP to easily detect your local Java installation and make sure that everything runs properly.
      To verify that you have the Java home environment variable type the following in a command / shell window:
      Windows:
      

      set JAVA_HOME

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      If the variable is set, you should see the path to the local java installation similar to the below:

      JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\jdk1.5.0_12

      Unix:

      echo $JAVA_HOME

      If the variable is set, you should see the path to the local java installation similar to the below:

      /opt/java/jdk1.5.0_12

      If you don't have the vairiable set, it highly recommended to set it. In windows XP, this is done as follows:
      Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced tab -> Environment Variables -> System variables -> New.
      In the "New System Variable" dialog box type "JAVA_HOME" for variable name and the path to your local java installation in the variable value. Click OK on all open dialogs to confirm. Note that you need to restart the command window if you want the variable to appear in it.
      In unix, you need to add the following to your startup script (.bashrc for example):

      export JAVA_HOME=/opt/java/jdk1.5.0_12

      Alternatively, you can modify the setenv.(sh/bat) script under the bin directory in the GigaSpaces installation root.
      If your installed JDK version is lower then 1.5 or none is installed, see below on how to install one.

   Installing a proper JDK (Java Development Kit)

   • To install JDK 1.5, download and install JDK 5.0 Update X
   • To install JDK 1.6, download and install JDK 6 Update X
     
     

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2. Download and unzip the GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 zip file from the downloads page.

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3. If you don't have an IDE installed, you can download and unzip the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers to a directory without spaces from the Eclipse download page.

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   (The next two steps are not mandatory if you only want to run the tutorial samples).

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4. Add the Spring IDE plugin to your IDE from the plugin update site: (paste this URL http://springide.org/updatesite in your update site list).
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   Adding the Spring IDE plugin to your IDE

   Eclipse

   The following steps add the Spring IDE update site to Eclipse site list, and download the Spring IDE plugin from the site:

   1. Start Eclipse
   2. Select Help > Software Updates > Find and Install... to open the Install/Update dialog
   3. Select Search for new features to install, and click Next
   4. Click the New Remote Site... button on the upper right
   5. In the Name field write: Spring IDE
   6. In the URL field write: http://springide.org/updatesite
   7. Click OK (This adds the Spring IDE update site to the site list)
   8. In the site list, mark only the Spring IDE site
   9. Click Finished to start searching for the plugin
   10. Select a mirror site near your location (or any), and click Next to start a search
   11. Mark Spring IDE from the feature result list, and click Next
   12. Accept the terms and click Next
   13. Click Finish to install

   To ensure that everything worked, select Help > About Eclipse Platform. A green Spring IDE icon should be added to the icon row.

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5. Optional - If you're not connected to the internet during development, and want code completion, configure your IDE for XML auto-complete when off-line.
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   Adding OpenSpaces XML support to your IDE

   Eclipse

   The following steps add auto-complete support to your XML editor for the GigaSpaces module:

   1. In Eclipse, select Window > Preferences... to open the Preferences window
   2. On the right side of the window, select Web and XML > XML Catalog
   3. Click the Add.. button, to open the Add/XML catalog entry dialog
   4. In the Location field, click the folder icon and select File System...
   5. Browse to <Your GigaSpaces Installed root folder>\lib\openspaces\schema folder
   6. Select one of the xsd files
   7. Set the Key Type field to Schema Location
   8. Click OK to add the entry
   9. Add all 9 xsd files the same way

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Your development environment is now ready to use GigaSpaces!

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