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Eclipse has a well-designed, and extensible architecture. What is valuable about Eclipse is that it provides an open source platform for creating an extensible integrated development environment (IDE). This platform allows anyone to build tools that integrate seamlessly with the environment and other tools.


The key to the seamless integration of tools with Eclipse is the plug-in. With the exception of a small run-time kernel, everything in Eclipse is a plug-in. This means that a plug-in you develop integrates with Eclipse in exactly the same way as other plug-ins.


Jelastic team has created a plug-in for Eclipse development platform. It is a set of software development tools that simplifies the process of application development in Eclipse IDE in the form of projects (Java EE) at the Jelastic platform.


Use the following instructions to install the plugin and manage Jelastic environments through Eclipse:

  1. Plugin installation

    2.
  2. Credentials Input

    3.
  3. Working with existing environments and logs viewing

    4.
  4. Deploying application to the cloud

    5.
  5. Note

    6.
 
Plugin Installation

Open main Eclipse window. Navigate to Help > Market Place.



Type Jelastic in Find field.



Install Jelastic Eclipse Plugin.









 
Credentials Input

To get started with Jelastic fill in your account data.

Navigate to Window > Preferences > Jelastic Preferences. In the opened Eclipse tab fill in Login, Password and Jelastic host.



 
Working with existing environments and logs viewing

Navigate to Window > Show View. You can notice that Jelastic Cloud Platform category is added to the list. Expand this menu item to open Jelastic view in the Eclipse admin panel.



In the opened tab your current Jelastic environments and deployed applications can be viewed. Also they can be managed through context menu by choosing the needed option: Start/Stop/Refresh.



Expand the environment menu to view the list of the containers included and get their logs:



 
Deploying Application to the Cloud

After installation at the Eclipse panel there will be added a button with Jelastic logo and the drop-down menu with Deploy and Deploy as options.


Using Deploy option you can redeploy the current project to the environment and context previously used for this project deployment.


If the application hasn't been deployed anywhere before, Deploy as option is used. In this case the window with a list of environments is opened for you to choose the project, the environment and the context for deploying the application.



Also the deploy of application can be performed through context menu of the project by using Deploy project to Jelastic and Deploy project to Jelastic as options.

 
Note

To deploy the projects from Eclipse to Jelastic they should be created as Dynamic/Static web projects. To do this you need to install Web, XML, Java EE and OSGi Enterprise Development plugin.



Navigate to File > New > Project to see the available projects:

  • Dynamic web project
  • Static web project


 
That's all. Now having Jelastic Eclipse plugin installed you can manage your deployments and Jelastic environments easily without switching between the IDE and the browser.

Jump at the chance to use all the advantages of Jelastic and Eclipse integration!
 
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