Installing the Vaadin plugin for eclipse.

I had a few issues loading the Vaadin plugin, so I created these note to remind me of the stepf for the next time. Also maybe these notes will help someone else too.

First load the Vaadin-Eclipse plugin.

1. Run eclipse.

2. In eclipse from the help menu, Select Install New Software...

3. Add new update site: http://vaadin.com/eclipse
(reference, http://vaadin.com/eclipse for details)

Now get XULRunner. (this is required by Vaadin)

1. Go to http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases
-->click on the 1.9.1.19 link and then the runtimes link. (the version 1.9.1.19 seems to change as time goes on and then direct links to this location are no longer working)
-->Select the correct version (for windows it is.....)
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.1.19/runtimes/xulrunner-1.9.1.19.en-US.win32.zip

2. Unzip the file to a directory of your choice. I used c:\Apps\xulrunner

3. go to that directory
and issue the following command for windows,
xulrunner.exe --register-global

(reference https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_1.9_Release_Notes)

4. Edit the eclipse configuration,
add the following to the bottom of the eclipse.ini file. (it should be in your eclipse directory)
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=C:/Apps/xulrunner
(likely your xulrunner will be if a different directory, so update this location appropriately.)

Now restart eclipse. If everything is ok, you should not see an xul errors like,
Could not start XULRunner (version 1.9 or higher required)