How to make an EPUB ebook with Eclipse

Create Static Web Project

Change WebContent to OEBPS

[Optional] Change to Static Web Perspective

Create folders and files that make up EPUB

Refer to the How to make EPUB ebook and create the files in the directory structure below.

MyFirstBook (ROOT Directory)
├── mimetype
├── META-INF
│    └── container.xml 
└── OEBPS 
    ├── content.opf
    ├── toc.ncx
    ├── css
    |    └── epub.css
    ├── images
    |    └── cover.jpg
    └── xhtml
         ├── cover.xhtml
         ├── preface.xhtml
         ├── ch01.xhtml
         └── ch02.xhtml

Configure Eclipse to edit the content.opf in an XML editor

Input *.opf

Configure Eclipse to edit the toc.ncx in an XML editor

Input *.ncx

Create a script to create and check the EPUB file in Linux

Create the following file in the root directory. --Modify the last line of epubcheck.jar and MyFirstBook.epub file paths to suit your environment--

makebook

#!/bin/sh

rm MyFirstBook.epub

zip -0Xq MyFirstBook.epub mimetype

zip -Xr9Dq MyFirstBook.epub META-INF OEBPS

java -jar /home/kim/epubcheck-4.2.2/epubcheck.jar /home/kim/EPUB/MyFirstBook/MyFirstBook.epub

Set up the makebook to run on a Linux system.

External Tools Configurations

Run MyFirstBook

See MyFirstBook Result.

Create a script to create and check EPUB in Windows

Create a makebook.bat file in the root directory. --Modify the last line of epubcheck.jar and MyFirstBook.epub file paths to suit your environment--

makebook.bat

del MyFirstBook.epub

zip -0Xq MyFirstBook.epub mimetype

zip -Xr9Dq MyFirstBook.epub META-INF OEBPS

java -jar C:/epubcheck-4.1.1/epubcheck.jar C:/EPUB/MyFirstBook/MyFirstBook.epub

Refer to the Linux configuration above and set it as follows.

MyFirstBook Result

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