Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 1 Eclipse for SE101

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 2 Starting Eclipse Start Eclipse from the command line: $ eclipse You may get the following error:

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 3 Fixing the SWT error From the command line, run: Ln –s creates a symbolic link $ ln -s /usr/lib/jni/libswt-* ~/.swt/lib/linux/x86_64/ Ln –s is used to create a symbolic link to the correct libraries in /usr/lib from your home folder

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 4 Starting Eclipse, again Start Eclipse from the command line: $ eclipse You will be prompted to specify a workspace where your code will be stored. For your SE101 assignments, use the ~/se101/git folder you created in your home folder.

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 5 Create a project Click File – New – Project Select Java Project and click Next For the project name, type A If you haven’t already created the bin and src folders, you have Eclipse do it for you under Project Layout Click Finish Click yes to switch to the Java Perspective

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group Create a new class Try creating a test class called hello.java by right clicking the project in the package explorer and selecting New – Class 6

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group Editing code Name the class hello and click finish In the editor, paste in our hello.java app Save hello.java Run hello.java by clicking the green arrow The output is in the console at the bottom of the screen 7

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group Editing code If I have made a mistake (e.g., I wrote system in lower case), I will get error messages when I run it. Eclipse underlines the error and lists it under the problems tab 8

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group Accessing tux off campus To run Eclipse, you will need an X server Included with most Linux / Mac distributions or can be downloaded separately From a Linux / Mac terminal, connect to tux $ ssh -x 9

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group 10 Accessing tux off campus For Windows, download: Putty: Putty is an SSH client used to connect to tux Xming: setup.exe/download setup.exe/download Xming is an X server used for Eclipse

Drexel University Software Engineering Research Group Accessing tux off campus Start putty and type tux.cs.drexel.edu for the host name Under Connection – SSH – X11 check “Enable X11 Forwarding” Click Open 11