Introducing OpenLaszlo
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Installing Laszlo Plugin for Eclipse

IDE for Laszlo is an add-on to Eclipse providing a workbench that helps us to create, edit, debug, and test lzx files. Since many of its features are pretty useful, let's look at how to integrate this to our Eclipse instance.

1. Launch the Eclipse IDE. In the workspace folder, enter C:\laszlosetup. This could be any location; however, if a different path is used, make sure that this is reflected wherever it is referred to in the tutorial.

Figure 2. Select the workspace in Eclipse.

2. Now, Select Help >> Software Updates >> Find and Install.

Figure 3. The plugin install window in Eclipse

3. Select "Search for new features to install" from the next window.

Figure 4. Search for new features to install.

4. In the next window, select "New Archived Site" and browse to the laszloIDE-0.2.0-jdk1.5.zip.

5. Check laszloIDE-0.2.0-jdk1.5.zip.

6. Leave "Ignore features not applicable..." checkbox selected and press Finish.

Figure 5. Select the update sites.

7. After a confirmation screen, the plugin will be installed to your Eclipse development environment. We have set up our development environment!

Set the Environment Variables

The following are the only environment variables that need to be set:

1. JAVA_HOME - C:\jdk1.5.0_02

2. ANT_HOME - C:\Tools\ant-1.6.5

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