Develop Addin for ArcGIS Part 1

Develop Addin for ArcGIS Part 1

In this post we'll develop a basic addin for ArcGIS using ArcObjects SDK for Java.

Open Eclipse and Create new project 
File -> New -> Other

Then Select Esri Templates -> ArcGIS Extensions -> Desktop -> ArcMap Add In Project

Then On New Addin Project window  and click on Configure JRE (We are going to add ArcObjects compatible JRE to eclipse it comes installed with ArcGIS desktop after that we'll set the execution environment)

Click on Add 

Select Standard VM

Click Next

Click on Directory and enter the name and following path as shown in figure

Click finish

Again click on configure JRE

Select installed JREs and click on execution Environments

Select Java SE 1.6 and Select the previously added JRE (Java ArcGIS)

Click Ok and Click Next

Click on libraries tab

Click Add libraries

Select ArcObjects Libraries 
(for adding Arcobjects library to eclipse see this tutorial)

Click finish

You can see the following on your screen. Everything is configured.

For next part see the next tutorial here