I imported an EAR project I had written on another system into eclipse so I had code before I had completely set up the GlassFish server environment and some other config files.
I noticed that even though I had a JDK and JRE integrated with my Eclipse environment it wasn’t recognizing any library files like javax. This was preventing any kind of debugging until I had finished installing the runtime environment which for me was GlassFish 3.1.
I am confused about what all the runtime environment contains because I thought the libraries necessary to interpret my code in the IDE were in the JDK and WPT web tools that I had installed and not on the GlassFish server which I think of as “just a container and Java EE server”.
Java SE does not include the Java EE libraries.
There are non-Java EE
javax.*packages in Java SE, however.