Level: Intermediate Nathan A. Good (mail@nathanagood.com), Senior Information Engineer, Consultant
06 May 2008 With launch configurations in Eclipse Europa, you can run external programs from
within the development environment and save settings for how you call an external
program. Learn how to build and use these launch configurations, including the types of automatic parameters available. In this tutorial
See Objectives Objectives In this tutorial, you learn how to build and use launch configurations. Learn how to
launch both Ant build scripts and an example script you can use to view parameter
values. Get a detailed look at the types of automatic parameters available to you
and learn how to use these parameters with your external tools.
Prerequisites
See System requirements
System requirements
To get the most out of this tutorial, all you need is Eclipse Europa.
The sample script used later in this tutorial is written both in batch (used for DOS)
and Bash shell scripting (used for Linux® and Mac OS X). And before you get started, add a new Java™ project to an
Eclipse workspace and put at least one Java file in the project. It doesn't really
matter what the Java class does or contains, but I recommend that it be a project you don't mind using for testing. To follow the examples, you need Eclipse Europa and one of the
operating systems Eclipse supports — Mac OS X, Microsoft®
Windows®, or Linux. You also need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) — JRE for Java V5 is recommended.
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