Set Up the Eclipse
Integrated Development Environment (optional)
You can use an IDE of your choice to
develop custom plug-ins for the
vSphere Client
. - From the Eclipse Web site at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/eclipse-packages/, download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers package.
- Extract the contents of the downloaded file into an appropriate location on your development machine.
- If you do not have the minimum and maximum heap size automatically set up for Eclipse, edit theeclipse.inifile before you start Eclipse. You must add the location to the JDK you installed and increase the heap space and the maximum permanent space used by the JVM.You must add or edit the Eclipse initialization file to contain the following lines:-vm C:/<your JAVA_HOME directory>/bin/java.exe -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
- Start Eclipse and edit the Eclipse preferences to set up your workspace for developing plug-ins for thevSphere Client.
- Open the Preferences dialog.
- On a Microsoft Windows platform, choose .
- On a Macintosh platform, choose .
The Preferences dialog opens. - From the General page, select theShow heap statusoption to display information about the current Java heap usage.
- From , configure the proxy settings to be used when opening a connection.
- From , select theBuild automaticallyandRefresh using native hooks or pollingcheck boxes.
- From , configure your code and naming conventions.
- From , add the location of the JDK you installed. See Set Up for Java Development.
- From , set the location of your SDK.Set the path to thehtml-client-sdkfolder as a value of theVSPHERE_CLIENT_SDKpath variable.
- From , set the location of your SDK.Set the path to thehtml-client-sdkfolder as a value of theVSPHERE_CLIENT_SDKclasspath variable.