Java PC Setup

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Contents 1 Mozilla Thunderbird Plugins 2 Mozilla Firefox Plugins 3 Cygwin 4 Java 5 General

Mozilla Thunderbird Plugins

• Lightning Calendar
  • (and also Provider for Google Calendar to Synch with email)
• English Dictionary
• Nokia Synch - in Dev
• : Contacts sidebar

Mozilla Firefox Plugins

Definite

• AdBlock Plus
• Theme
• Del.icio.us bookmarks (from Yahoo)
• Stumbleupon

Possible

• Firebug Web Development
• MeeTimer
• Selenium - Web Tests
• Tab Mix Plus - more control over Firefox tabs
• Google Notebook Extension

Investigate further

Cygwin

Include the following:

• OpenSSH (.net Package)
• Nano Text editor

Java

• JBoss IDE / Red Hat Developer Studio

Recommended

• Maven Plugin for Eclipse - http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/
• SVN Plugin for Eclipse http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
• Spring IDE Plugins (do these come with RHDS?)
• Checkstyle Plugins

Optional

• Mylyn task focussed UI
• Flash Plugin for Eclipse
• Eclipse Tail Plugin (Logfiles)
  • Note: Change Preferences for 'Install and Updates' to take version number increments
• PHP Eclipse

General

• Notepad++ Text editor (lightweight)
• Open Office
• 7-Zip Extractor