JBuilder for Home

Borland JBuilder Foundation 2005 is available at no cost for educational use. If you wish to obtain a copy and install it on your home machine, follow these steps.

• Obtain an installation JBuilder Personal
  You can either download it or sign out a disk in class. If you do not have a fast Internet connection and utilities on your computer for unzipping files, you should use the disk from class.  If you chose to download it  use the following link  http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_jbuilder.html

• Install JBuilder 2005 from disk
  

• To install JBuilder 2005, just double click on install.exe and follow the directions. You can use all of the default settings.
• JBuilder documentation and code samples are available at www.borland.com. However, these take up significant disk space and are not really needed unless you want to get into the more advanced features of JBuilder.
  

• Use Java 1.5 with JBuilder
  

• To use Java 1.5 with JBuilder, you must also install the Java 1.5 and and do some additional setup.
• Double-click on jdk-1_5_0_01-nb-4-bin-win.exe on the CD and following instructions to install. Use all of the defaults.
• If you need to use Java 1.5, the setup under JBuilder will be discussed in class.  Here is the procedure:
  

• Setting up JBuilder to use Java 1.5
• Open JBuilder 2005.
• Open the Project menu and select the Default Project Properties option.
• Open the Build -> Java menu item:
• Change the Language features: to Java 2 SDK, v5.0(generics enabled).
• Change the Target VM: to Java 2 SDK, v5.0 and later.
• Open the Paths menu item and select the Required Libraries tab.
•  Select Add and then New.
• Set the Name to rt.
• Set the Location to User Home.
• Select the Add button to the library path for rt.jar.  If Java 1.5 is installed in the default location this will be C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/rt.jar.
• Click the OK buttons all the way back to close all of the menus.
• At this point all of the menus should be closed. If not, click the OK buttons to close them.
• Open the Tools menu and select Configure -> JDKs.
• Select New.
• Set the Existing JDK homepath: to the directory where Java 1.5 is installed on your machine. The usual place is C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.5.0.
• If the Name for this JDK is not automatically filled in, enter Java 1.5.
• Click OK to close the new menu.
• Now on the Configure JDKs menu click on the name of the JDK 1.5 that you just set. The JDK Settings should now reflect the new JDK.
• Click OK to close the menu.