Orion software development environment

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The Eclipse IDE is a workspace with a plug-in system for developing applications in Java, as well as other programming languages. Orion is a browser-based open tool integration platform for web development from the Eclipse Foundation.

The promise that Orion makes is simple: Once an admin has installed Orion on a company server, the developers then only need a fairly modern browser to proceed. The following sections show how to set up a useful Orion environment.

Installation

The installation routine will run on any Linux server. The prerequisite is a Java Runtime Environment version 1.6 or newer. If you just want to try Orion out, you can install the package locally – which is also the preferred option for laptop users without stable network access.

The Eclipse Orion ZIP package is available online [1]. The current version when this issue went to press was 19. The package weighs in at 69MB; unpacking inflates it to 73MB, which contradicts the information on the download page (30MB).

Simply unpack the ZIP archive in a suitable location (e.g., under /usr/local/lib). That's it. The top folder in the archive is eclipse. If it already exists, you should consider an alternative path. Although the eclipse folder contains only one subfolder, orion, which should not cause any problems during unpacking, it never makes sense to merge installations.

Besides the server package, the download page offers the misleadingly named "Client" components. One is a Node.js-based server version, which does not have the same functionally as the Java-based variant and only runs in single-user mode by default. This version makes it more suitable for installation on a client, which explains the name.

Also in the Client section are language tools that support multiple

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