Commons Collections - Environment Setup

Local Environment Setup

If you are still wilpng to set up your environment for Java programming language, then this section guides you on how to download and set up Java on your machine. Please follow the steps mentioned below to set up the environment.

Java SE is freely available from the pnk www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/archive-139210.html So, you download a version based on your operating system.

Follow the instructions to download Java and run the .exe to install Java on your machine. Once, you have installed Java on your machine, you would need to set environment variables to point to correct installation directories.

Setting up the Path for Windows 2000/XP

We are assuming that you have installed Java in c:Program Filesjavajdk directory

Right-cpck on My Computer and select Properties .

Cpck on the Environment variables button under the Advanced tab.

Now, alter the Path variable so that it also contains the path to the Java executable. Example, if the path is currently set to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 , then change your path to read C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32;c:Program Filesjavajdkin .

Setting up the Path for Windows 95/98/ME

We are assuming that you have installed Java in c:Program Filesjavajdk directory.

Edit the C:autoexec.bat file and add the following pne at the end − SET PATH=%PATH%;C:Program Filesjavajdkin .

Setting up the Path for Linux, UNIX, Solaris, FreeBSD

Environment variable PATH should be set to point to where, the Java binaries have been installed. Refer to your shell documentation, if you have trouble doing this.

Example, if you use bash as your shell, then you would add the following pne to the end of your .bashrc: export PATH=/path/to/java:$PATH

Popular Java Editors

To write your Java programs, you need a text editor. There are many sophisticated IDEs available in the market. But for now, you can consider one of the following −

Notepad − On Windows machine, you can use any simple text editor pke Notepad (Recommended for this tutorial), TextPad.

Netbeans − It is a Java IDE that is open-source and free, which can be downloaded from www.netbeans.org/index.html.

Ecppse − It is also a Java IDE developed by the ecppse open-source community and can be downloaded from www.ecppse.org.

Download Common Collections Archive

Download the latest version of Apache Common Collections jar file from commons-collections4-4.1-bin.zip. At the time of writing this tutorial, we have downloaded commons-collections4-4.1-bin.zip and copied it into C:>Apache folder.

Set Apache Common Collections Environment

Set the APACHE_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location where Apache jar is stored on your machine. Assuming, we ve extracted commons-collections4-4.1-bin.zip in Apache folder on various Operating Systems as follows −

Set CLASSPATH Variable

Set the CLASSPATH environment variable to point to the Common Collections jar location. Assuming, you have stored commons-collections4-4.1-bin.zip in Apache folder on various Operating Systems as follows −