Jair Rillo Junior’s blog

After these posts: Example of EJB3 (Session Bean) using Eclipse Europa and JBoss and Creating an EJB3 (session Bean) using Netbeans 6.1 and Glassfish, I am going to write a new one about how to add the Glassfish support on Eclipse Europa.

Actually the Glassfish supports is eligible in Eclipse Europa since version 3, however it does not come as default server. You must “download” it and then you can setup it on Eclipse.

Why Glassfish on Eclipse? As shown in the topics later, JBoss does not have the FULLY EJB3 support yet. If your preferred IDE is eclipse (like me) and you want to fully EJB3 support, make this integration can be an excellent choice.

Downloading Glassfish support on Eclipse

Open your Eclipse IDE and go to Window -> Preferences menu. In the new screen, expand the option Server and click on Installed Runtimes.

Click Add button and a new screen will come up. On this new screen, there is a link called Download additional server adapters.

On the new screen, all supported server will appear (but before, you must wait for eclipse to download them).

Choose Glassfish and click on Finish. Back onto Installed Server screen, choose Glassfish and click on Edit, a new window will come up. On this new window, you must select the Application Server Directory and then click on Finish.

Done, the server is configured and ready for use. You probably will see it on the Server view.

To start it, right-click (on Server view) and select start.

After the server starts, open your browser and type http://localhost:8080

It was a short topic, but hopefully it can be useful for anyone.