Before setting up the spring framework there are some
things that we need to setup. Things like JDK, Tomcat, eclipse that we should
have in the system. This tutorial will take you through these setups.
Let us go through
these setup steps one by one.
Step1 – Setup Java Development Kit
(JDK)
Download Latest SDK, you can download the latest version of SDK from this link. Do follow the
steps given in the link, install and configure the setup. Finally to refer to
the directory that contains java and javac set up PATH and JAVA_HOME in the
environment variables.
If the operating
system is windows and the JDK installed directory is c: we have to put the
below lines into C:\autoexex.bat file:
set PATH=C:\jdk1.7\bin;%PATH%
set JAVA_HOME = C:\jdk1.7
Otherwise, if you
have windows operating system you can right-click on My Computer à Properties à Advanced à Environmental variables à update the PATH variable à OK.
In Unix OS, use C
shell for putting the following code
setenv PATH
/usr/local/jdk1.7/bin:$PATH
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.7
To confirm that
the IDE knows the installed path of java we have to run the simple hello world
java program. If the program compiles and runs successfully there is no problem
if the program gives the error, follow the steps given in IDE documentation.
Step 2 – Installing apache common
Logging API
Download the
latest version of apache API from this link.
After the download is complete unzip the zipped file into the convenient location
in the drive. The directory will have the following jars and supporting documents.
1.
Site
2.
Commons-logging-1.1.1
3.
Commons-logging-1.1.1-Javadoc
4.
Commons-logging-1.1.1-sources
5.
Commons-logging-adapters-1.1.1
6.
Commons-logging-API-1.1.1
7.
Commons-logging-tests
8.
LICENCE
9.
NOTICE
10. RELEASE-NOTES
Also, keep in mind
to set up the classpath to this folder otherwise, apache tomcat will have problems
in running.
Step3 – Setup IDE (Eclipse)
Eclipse’s latest version can be downloaded from the following location https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
The downloaded file will be a zip file, unzip the file into the desired
location/drive. Setup the path variable accordingly.
Double click on eclipse to start IDE.
Tip: Pin the exe file to the taskbar, so that every
time we need to open eclipse we need not go to the complete folder.
Step 4 – Setup spring-related Framework libraries –
Remember, come to
this step only if the previous steps are successfully executed. Follow below
steps carefully to add spring framework:
1.
For
windows, we have to download .zip and for Unix, we have to download .tz
2.
Go
to https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
.
3.
Select
the release version that is needed.
4.
After
clicking it will redirect to URL.
5.
To
download the spring framework select RELEASE-dist.zip for example if you have
selected the version 5.2.8, select spring-5.2.8.RELEASE-dist.zip
6.
The
zip will contain the following files docs, libs, schema, license, release,
notice.
7.
The
libs directory will contain all the required libraries.
8.
If
you are using other IDE, Setup the classpath properly to this directory otherwise
at runtime the errors will come.
9.
For
the eclipse, we do not have to anything as all settings will be taken care of
by the eclipse itself.
After all these
steps we are good to go to proceed to the next tutorial.
The next chapter
will be Spring tutorial - Spring Hello World Example.
Feel free to add
something to this tutorial if I have missed something.
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