Developing OpenShift Java applications using Eclipse

You can build, deploy, and manage your OpenShift Java applications right from within the Eclipse IDE using the JBoss Tools OpenShift plugin. This recipe will guide you through installation, setup, application creation, and managing your application from within Eclipse. In this recipe, you will develop a Java EE 6 PostgreSQL 9.2 application and deploy it on the JBoss EAP 6 application server running on OpenShift all from within Eclipse.

Getting ready

Download the latest Eclipse package for your operating system from the official Eclipse website at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. At the time of this writing, the latest Eclipse package is Kepler.

It is very easy to install Eclipse; just extract ...

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