mercurial and mercurialEclipse plugin in ubuntu

Install the latest version of mercurial

• $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases
• $ sudo apt-get update
• $ sudo apt-get install mercurial
• check version of mercurial: $ hg --version

Mercurial eclipse plugin

• Help/Eclipse marketplace
• Find: Mercurial
• Install MercurialEclipse (requires at least mercurial 2.0)

Resources

http://askubuntu.com/questions/62612/is-it-possible-to-install-mercurial-1-9-on-9-10/62618#62618

Creating a shortcut to eclipse on the ubuntu desktop

Proceed in this way:

• right click on desktop: Create Launcher
• set the proper icon eclipse_home/icon.xpm
• Set the command: eclipse_home/eclipse

Troubleshooting

Issue: "A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations "

Solution

• $ cd eclipse_home
• $ mkdir jre
• $ cd jre
• $ ln -s /opt/jdk1.6.0_35/jre/bin/ bin

Resources:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11081349&postcount=4
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-create-desktop-shortcut-with-eclipse-ide-icom-876136/#post4331155

filesync eclipse plugin

Nice eclipse plugin to synchronize resources.
http://andrei.gmxhome.de/filesync/index.html
Adopting it will speed up your development process without need to rebuild each time you edit a resource in the src folder, for instances a jsp.

Remotely debug tomcat on linux

Create this simple shell script: debugtomcat.sh

#leave this command for future reference
#export currentdir=`pwd`
export JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m 
-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,
address=8000,server=y,suspend=n'
echo JAVA_OPTS: $JAVA_OPTS
/$HOME/MyPrograms/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/bin/catalina.sh run

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