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Create New Directory Structure
The first thing we need to do is to create a new directory structure to allow for multiple versions of WebObjects to be installed in. This new directory structure basically creates a new root level that WOLips will look in for all frameworks used by a given project or workspace. This directory structure can be anything you wish. For demonstration purposes, I'm going to create it under the /Developer directory.
Create: /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/
Download WOInstaller.jar
We now need to download the WOInstaller.jar file from http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/ and save it into the 
wocommunity.org/documents/tools/WOInstaller.jarVersions/ directory we just created.
Use WOInstaller.jar to download WebObjects
Open Terminal.app and run one of the following commands:
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java -jar /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WOInstaller.jar 5.3.3 /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533
java -jar /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WOInstaller.jar 5.4.3 /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects543
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(depending upon which version of WebObjects you would like to download.)
Installed Versions
When the script has finished downloading, your directory should look something like this. At this point you could rename the directory to something like MyCustomer or MyProject. For this demonstration we'll just leave it named as is.
Open Eclipse / WOLips
You need to launch Eclipse and WOLips at least once so that it will create the default wolips.properties file in ~/Library/Application Support/WOLips/. If you've already been using WOlips, you can skip this step.
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Make a copy of the default wolips.properties file
Select the wolips.properties file and make a copy of it. Then rename the copy to be wolips.yourversion.properties. In reality, you can rename it however you'd like (for example: wolips.properties.533 or 533.wolips.properties), but I find that putting the version number in the middle (e.g. wolips.533.properties) will keep all the different versions together, and will not mess with the extension mapping.
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As an example, if you downloaded WebObjects 5.3.3 into /Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533, then modify your new wolips.533.properties file as follows (substituting your username for bubba, of course):
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wo.network.root=/Network
wo.system.root=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/System
wo.local.root=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533
wo.user.root=/Users/bubba
wo.network.frameworks=/Network/Library/Frameworks
wo.system.frameworks=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/System/Library/Frameworks
wo.local.frameworks=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/Library/Frameworks
wo.user.frameworks=/Users/bubba/Library/Frameworks
wo.bootstrapjar=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/WOBootstrap.jar
wo.extensions=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/Library/WebObjects/Extensions
wo.apps.root=/Developer/WebObjects/Versions/WebObjects533/Library/WebObjects/Applications
wo.api.root=/Developer/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.ADC_Reference_Library.WebObjectsReference.docset/Contents/Resources/\
Documents/documentation/InternetWeb/Reference/WO542Reference
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Option 1 - Configure the Eclipse workspace to reference your new wolips.properties file
With this option, we're telling the Eclipse/WOLips internal incremental builder to reference a specific wolips.properties file for the entire workspace (rather than using the default, which is $HOME/Library/Application Support/WOLips/wolips.properties). And by doing this, we're implicitly telling Eclipse which installation of WebObjects we want it to use.
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This setting currently affects only the Eclipse internal builder - it will not influence external builds with Ant. That is, when you build your project (e.g. for deployment) using any of the following:
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Option 2 - Configure your project to reference your new wolips.properties file
Currently, the Eclipse Ant builder is not controlled by the "WOLips -> Build" setting in Eclipse's Preferences. In order to build with Ant, you first need to tell Ant where to find your WebObjects installation and other resources. Your project's default Ant buildfile, build.xml (which is created by WOLips when you create a new WebObjects application project), reads and uses the properties found in your $HOME/Library/Application Support/WOLips/wolips.properties file. But you can specify a different wolips.properties file by adding a line like the following to your project's build.properties file:
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wolips.properties=/Users/bubba/Library/Application Support/WOLips/wolips.533.properties
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Note that for now (as of WOLips version 3.4.5830), this really must be an absolute, fully-qualified filepath; if you were to specify a relative filename, Eclipse/WOLips would treat it as being relative to Also, you might think you could use an Ant variable specification such as ${user.home} on the right hand side – but you can't. The problem is that while Ant would interpret this correctly, Eclipse/WOLips will not. Also note that you can't in any case use a tilde character as an abbreviation for your home directory. |
If you specify a wolips.properties setting this way, it will override the workspace-wide WOLips preference setting.
Eclipse will also use this setting to find resources at runtime, i.e. when you run your project from within Eclipse.
OPTIONAL - Building your project from the Command Line Using Ant
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You can do this either via a the -lib parameter to the ant command, e.g.
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ant -lib /path/to/woproject.jar |
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or by putting a copy of woproject.jar someplace where Ant can will find it. One A convenient location for it is your $HOME/.ant/lib folder:
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mkdir -p ~/.ant/lib find /path/to/your/eclipse/plugins -name "woproject.jar" -exec cp -p {} cp -p /Applications/eclipse-3.4.2/plugins/org.objectstyle.wolips.woproject.ant_3.4.5830/lib/woproject.jar ~/.ant/lib \; |
(2) The location of your wolips.properties file:
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As above, you cannot use a tilde character as an abbreviation for your home directory (but you in fact could use an environment variable such as $HOME - the shell would expand it before passing it to ant).
OPTIONAL - Building your project using Hudson
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