Getting started

Outline

• • Outline
  • Introduction
  • Install Maven
  • Download Eclipse
  • Launch Eclipse
  • Eclipse plugins
    • • Step 1 - Choose the menu item: Help > install new software...
      • Step 2 - install the testNG plugin (for a simple example)
        • a) Click the "Add..." button to define the update site, fill in the details, click OK.
        • b) Tick the plugin fragments to install
        • c) Click next repeatedly, confirming license agreements, finally clicking "Finish" to install.
        • d) after the software plugin has installed, it will prompt you for a restart of eclipse. Click Yes.
        • e) after eclipse has restarted, continue...
      • Step 3 - install Groovy
      • Step 4 - Install subversive connectors
        • Step 5 - Install egit
        • Step 6 - Install m2eclipse
        • Step 6 - Install WOLips 3.5

Introduction

This guide is aimed at those who'd like to set up a local wolips development environment utilising maven and scm (git, svn).

Install Maven

You can download and install maven for most platforms here.

Download Eclipse

Eclipse can be downloaded and installed from www.eclipse.org/downloads/. For mac it's just a simple matter of unpacking the zip file downloaded into /Applications or /Users/youraccount/Applications.

Launch Eclipse

Open eclipse by double clicking on the application icon (from where you installed it).

Eclipse will then ask you for the location of a 'workspace' which is where eclipse will store its metadata.

Eclipse plugins

Various plugins have prerequisites, and some are just useful anyway, so here's a suggested order of installing some useful plugins when setting up a brand new eclipse environment.

Step 1 - Choose the menu item: Help > install new software...

This will open the install window:

Step 2 - install the testNG plugin (for a simple example)

a) Click the "Add..." button to define the update site, fill in the details, click OK.

b) Tick the plugin fragments to install

c) Click next repeatedly, confirming license agreements, finally clicking "Finish" to install.

d) after the software plugin has installed, it will prompt you for a restart of eclipse. Click Yes.

e) after eclipse has restarted, continue...

Step 3 - install Groovy

Repeat step 2 with the following detail changes:
Site name: Groovy-dev
Site location: http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/updateDev/

Step 4 - Install subversive connectors

Repeat step 2 with the following detail changes:
Site name: Subversive-connectors
Site location: http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/galileo-site/
Fragments selected: 'Subversive SVN Connectors', 'SVNKit 1.3 Implementation (Optional)'

Step 5 - Install egit

Repeat step 2 with the following detail changes:
Site name: egit
Site location: http://www.jgit.org/updates

Step 6 - Install m2eclipse

Repeat step 2 with the following detail changes:
Site name: m2eclipse
Site location: http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update-dev/
Fragments selected: all fragments of 'Maven Integration'

Step 6 - Install WOLips 3.5

Repeat step 2 with the following detail changes:
Site name: WOLips35
Site location: http://webobjects.mdimension.com/wolips/eclipse_3_5/
Fragments selected: all fragments of 'Maven Integration'