Prerequisites

Eclipse itself is a Java program and hence you need to have the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to use eclipse. If you want to use Eclipse for Java development, as in most cases, you will also need a (Java Development Kit) JDK.

Downloading and installing

Follow these simple steps to download and install Eclipse IDE:

We will see how to communicate between a server and a client using simple network programming using sockets. You can get started with socket programming. Also, a simple client server program might be needed in many situations; you can just copy paste the basic code below and add to it.

We will create a simple server that accepts a client and sends a string message to the client. Client simply prints the message from server in the console.

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby was first designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented and imperative. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it is therefore similar in varying respects to Smalltalk, Python, Perl, Lisp etc.

Follow the these steps to configure an apache tomcat server with eclipse, and use the server from within the eclipse and do start, stop, deploy etc.

1. Download the latest version of the JBoss Application Server from jboss site http://www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads, unzip it and run the file standalone.bat located in the bin directory to start it. Then visit http://localhost:8080 to confirm if the server has started properly.