Installing the Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit and related features
Installing Eclipse
- Go to: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- Click Download now: Eclipse SDK 3.2.2
- Select a mirror to download from
- Save the zip file on your hard drive
- Extract the contents of the zip file
- That's it!
Installing YWDT and related features
- Run Eclipse
- From the menu select Help/Software Updates/Find and Install
- Make sure "Search for new features to install" is selected
- Click Next
- Click New Remote Site...
- Enter "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit" in the Name field
- Enter "http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fwwarr/ywdt/" in the URL field
- Click Ok
- Make sure "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit" is checked
- Make sure "Callisto Discovery Site" is checked
- Optionally, select "Automatically select mirrors"
- Click Finish. Eclipse will search the internet for features to install.
- In the resulting dialog, check "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit"
- Expand the "Calisto Discovery Site" node
- Expand the "Web and J2EE Development" node
- Check "Web Standard Tools (WST) Project"
- Click the "Select Required" button
- Click Next
- You may now read the licenses for each of the features to install
- Select "I accept the terms in the license agrement"
- Click Next
- Review the features to be installed and click finish
- In the Feature Verification dialogs that may appear, click Install or Install All.
- Click Yes to restart Eclipse for the changes to take effect
Updating YWDT
- Run Eclipse
- From the menu select Help/Software Updates/Find and Install
- Make sure "Search for updates of the currently installed features" is selected
- Click Finish
- Check the Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit box
- Click Finish
Notes:
- To get minor increment updates (eg. 1.0.0 to 1.1.0) and not only service updates
(eg 1.0.0 to 1.0.1) go to Window | Preferences | Install/Update and select "Compatible".
- It is also possible to get updates automatically, see the Automatic Updates section
of the preferences mentioned above.