Java EE: Setup WildFly for Java EE Development

If you are developing Java EE applications, then WildFly is an excellent web application that you can set up easily.  In this post we are going to setup WildFly on a Windows machine.  The instructions should be similar for a Linux machine, it's just that the files ends with the .sh extensions.

Here are the steps to setup WildFly on your machine:

1. Go the WildFly website and download the latest version, https://wildfly.org/downloads/

JavaEE: Create Dynamic Web Project With Tomcat And Eclipse

In order to host websites in Tomcat we need to create a project to host servlets.  In this post we are going to create Dynamic Web project in Eclipse.

Here are the steps to create a web project in Eclipse:

1. Right-click on "Servers" → "New" → "Other"

2. Expand the "Web" node then select "Dynamic Web Project", then click "Next"→

JavaEE: Configure Tomcat As An Eclipse Server

In this post we are going to set Tomcat as a server in Eclipse so that we can interact with Tomcat through Eclipse.

Here are the steps to configure Tomcat to work with Eclipse:

You have to download the zip file version of the install to make Tomcat work with the Eclipse.  I had no luck with the Windows Installer

So go to https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi

Then click on the .zip version of the download, and then extract the files into the




















Now extract the content of the zip file into the folder C:\apache-tomcat-9.0.24

JavaEE: Install The Eclipse IDE On Windows

In this post we are going to install the Eclipse IDE for Java development.

Here are the steps to install Eclipse:

1. Go to https://eclipse.org/downloads click on the "Download 64-bit" button

JavaEE: Install Tomcat 9 On Windows

2. Under "Binary Distributions" select the last link

Fedora: Install Eclipse IDE

Love it or hate it the Eclipse IDE is a comprehensive development tool that rivals or surpasses Microsoft's Visual Studio.  If you are working outside of the .NET stack Eclipse will probably have plug-in for your development platform. I myself find the UI a little bit overwhelming.  But for the price it's a pretty good value, which is free!

Fedora: Install Oracle JDK

Linux installation comes with OpenJDK, but you want to use the official JDK from Oracle instead to run most of the software.  This post will show you the steps to install the Oracle JDK

First let's check to see what version of JDK we have installed by running the command

java -version