This section describes the setup that is required to develop J2EE applications. The following figure shows an overview of setup:

Figure 3-2 Overview of setup for the development environment

The following is a brief description of the stages in the above figure:

1. Setting up Eclipse
   In this stage, you set the JDK version to be used in Eclipse and specify the settings for outputting the information about local variables. For details, see 3.4.1 Setting up Eclipse.
   
2. Installing WSDL4J
   In this stage, you install WSDL4J. WSDL is required to parse and generate documents. For details, see 3.4.2 Installing WSDL4J.
   

The following subsections describe the stages of development environment setup in the same order as in the above figure.

Organization of this section

3.4.1 Setting up Eclipse

3.4.2 Installing WSDL4J