Installing mysql in linux

To install mysql type following command in terminal

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

When installation is done, you may want to setup password for root

sudo mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password 'test'
sudo mysqladmin -u root -h hostname password 'test'

Replace hostname and ‘test’ with your actually hostname and desired

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What is Boundary Value Analysis?

Boundary value analysis is defining the input-output of a system for extreme cases. For example if the specification for a text field on a web page is to accept numbers from 1 to 99 then boundary value analysis will include inputs near 1 (-1, 0. 1.1 etc) and near 99 (98, 99.5 and 100 etc.)

Installing tomcat in ubuntu/linux

Download tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org
Go to the directory where you have downloaded apache-tomcat-6.0.18.tar.gz

$ cd
$ tar xvzf apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz

Move tomcat to ~/opt directory

sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.18 ~/opt/tomcat

Now you can start tomcat by executing startup.sh script located in tomcat/bin directory.

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What is Equivalence Partitioning?

Equivalence Partitioning is defining sets of input-output for a system and each of such sets is called an equivalence partition.

Installing eclipse in ubuntu/linux

Download eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Make an opt directory in user’s home directory

$ mkdir ~/opt

Go to the directory where you have downloaded eclipse

$ tar -xvf eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-linux-gtk.tar.gz && mv eclipse ~/opt

Make a bin folder in user’s home directory

$ mkdir ~/bin

Next create an executable for Eclipe at ~/bin/eclipse

$ vi ~/bin/eclipse

Add the following lines in this file

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"
export ECLIPSE_HOME="$HOME/opt/eclipse"
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

Finally make script executable

$ chmod +x ~/bin/eclipse

You can now execute that file to start up Eclipse.

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Installing JDK in ubuntu/linux

To install jdk6.0 type the following command in terminal window

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Provide password for root. It will show you agreement. Select and wait for installation to be completed.
We should set JAVA_HOME environment variable after successful installation of jdk.

$ vi ~/.bashrc

Insert following line in above file

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

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Setting up j2ee developer environment in ubuntu/linux

A java developer machine has following most frequent tools in his machine.
1.  Sun JDK 6.0
2.  Eclispe 3.4
3.  Tomcat 6.X
4.  MySql 5
5.  Apache 2

Currently above are the popular versions, please update version if a newer version is available. Also, I have tried to list down all the necessary links and commands so that you can save time in finding these links or commands.

if you find something missing, please post a comment.

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