Installing the Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit and related features

Installing Eclipse

  1. Go to: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
  2. Click Download now: Eclipse SDK 3.2.2
  3. Select a mirror to download from
  4. Save the zip file on your hard drive
  5. Extract the contents of the zip file
  6. That's it!

Installing YWDT and related features

  1. Run Eclipse
  2. From the menu select Help/Software Updates/Find and Install
  3. Make sure "Search for new features to install" is selected
  4. Click Next
  5. Click New Remote Site...
  6. Enter "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit" in the Name field
  7. Enter "http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fwwarr/ywdt/" in the URL field
  8. Click Ok
  9. Make sure "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit" is checked
  10. Make sure "Callisto Discovery Site" is checked
  11. Optionally, select "Automatically select mirrors"
  12. Click Finish. Eclipse will search the internet for features to install.
  13. In the resulting dialog, check "Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit"
  14. Expand the "Calisto Discovery Site" node
  15. Expand the "Web and J2EE Development" node
  16. Check "Web Standard Tools (WST) Project"
  17. Click the "Select Required" button
  18. Click Next
  19. You may now read the licenses for each of the features to install
  20. Select "I accept the terms in the license agrement"
  21. Click Next
  22. Review the features to be installed and click finish
  23. In the Feature Verification dialogs that may appear, click Install or Install All.
  24. Click Yes to restart Eclipse for the changes to take effect

Updating YWDT

  1. Run Eclipse
  2. From the menu select Help/Software Updates/Find and Install
  3. Make sure "Search for updates of the currently installed features" is selected
  4. Click Finish
  5. Check the Yahoo! Widget Development Toolkit box
  6. Click Finish
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