Integrating GlassFish with Eclipse 3.7

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Pavithra Gunasekara

Aug. 20, 12 · Integration Zone

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This post will show you how to integrate GlassFish 3.0.1 with Eclipse 3.7.

Download the zip archive for GlassFish from here.
Unzip it using the following command.
```
unzip glassfish-3.0.1.zip 
```
Move GlassFish installation directory to a more suitable place.
```
sudo mv glassfishv3 /opt
```
Open Eclipse.
Navigate to New -> Server and click on download additional server adapters link and install Oracle GlassFish server tools. Restart Eclipse, when the installation is finished.

After restarting Eclipse, navigate to New -> server.

Select GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3 (Java EE 6) and click next.

Select a working JRE environment, select the installation path of your Glassfish application server and click next.

In this screen keep the default settings and click next.

In this screen it lets you select existing projects to be added to the newly configured server adapter, just click Finish.

After a successful configuration, server adapter will be appeared in the servers tab. Start the server by right-clicking on it.