Setting up your Linux Environment (Ubuntu) for JAVA Development

This tutorial is for starters. although this may also help professionals. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I thought of creating a tutorial on how to setup your Linux environment for java development.

Installing JDK 6

• download jdk from here
• create folder jvm in /usr/local
• move the downloaded jdk to /usr/local/jvm
• change the permission of jdk -> sudo chmod 700 jdk-6u38-linux-i586-rpm.bin
• extract jdk using command -> ./jdk-6u38-linux-i586-rpm.bin
• create a link for the jdk -> ln -s jdk-6u38 java
• add the jdk in your enviromnent PATH. I usually add it in .bashrc

          you can add the following in your .bashrc:

          export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jvm/java

          export JDK_HOME=$JAVA_HOME

          export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Installing JDK 7

Just execute the following commands to install jdk7

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

Installing Subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion

Installing Git

sudo apt-get install git-core

Installing Maven

• Go to Apache Maven website and follow the instructions
• place maven in /usr/local/apache-maven
• if you have your own settings.xml, create .m2 folder in your home directory and place your settings.xml
• add maven in your environment path