Setting up your development environment - EduGarage (Blackboard Developers Network)

This tutorial is meant to help you set up your IDE so that you can start setting up your Building Blocks projects and develop. Please add your comments and change the content of this tutorial as you see fit.

Tutorial Contents

Installing Eclipse
Installing NetBeans
Resources

Installing and Configuring Eclipse

See the Getting Started Beginners Guide for detailed information on how to set up Eclipse for Blackboard development purposes.

Also, check out the EduGarage Archives for a recorded webinar on how to set up your development environment.

Installing and Configuring NetBeans

We currently do not have any documentation relating to installing and configuring Eclipse; however, NetBeans is often cited as easier to use than Eclipse and does warrant a look.

Resources

Getting Started with Eclipse
Eclipse Documentation
NetBeans Documentation
NetBeans Quick Start Tutorial