The vSphere Web Client SDK provides an Eclipse plug-in that adds tools and wizards to your Eclipse IDE to ease your HTML and Flex-based plug-in development process. This step is required only if you use the Eclipse IDE for developing HTML plug-ins.

Prerequisites

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Configure the proxy to be used for your development machine. For more information, see Set Up the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment.

Procedure
1

Start Eclipse on your development machine.

2

From Help > Install New Software ..., click Add in the Install dialog box.

The Add Repository dialog box appears.

3

In the Name text box, enter a name for this local site, such as vSphere Client plug-in site.

You can reuse the created repository, if you install a new version of Eclipse at the same place on your machine.

4

Click Local ... and browse to the your_SDK_location/tools/Eclipse plugin site directory.

5

Select the vSphere Web Client SDK Tools node from the discovered software and click Next.

6

Check the installation details and accept the license agreement.

7

Click Finish to complete the wizard.

Click OK on the warning pop-up dialog box that shows up during the installation process.

8

Restart your Eclipse SDK to apply the changes.

What to do next

Verify that the Eclipse plug-in is installed correctly by going to Help > About Eclipse and selecting Installation Details.

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