EclipseLink/Building

Under Construction for PDE as of 20080430-20080502

This page is undergoing a major change to prepare for the new PDE structure. See [EclipseLink/Development/EclipseLinkPDEConversionPlan http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Development/EclipseLinkPDEConversionPlan]

These notes will be incorporated into the main doc and formalized at the end of this process.

• Prerequisites
  • Remove any existing eclipselink.* projects
  • Keep existing classpath variables
• Importing Projects
  • Import | General | Existing projects into Workspace
    • root directory = <trunk>/lib
    • Leave "Copy projects into workspace" unselected
    • select all of javax.* and org.*

Licensing Issues

We are still sorting through some licensing issues for some of the libraries we depend on and upgrading code to use libraries that are EPL compliant. In the mean time, you may be able to use the following information to build the various projects.

SVN Structure

At the moment, all code can be found in the org.eclipse.persistence/trunk directory on the technology SVN server. The following directories are designed to be compilable sub-components of EclipseLink. They each contain an src directory and potentially a resource directory that the files necessary for building and running.

Runtime

• foundation/eclipselink.core - the core of EclipseLink
• foundation/eclipselink.extension.oracle - extensions that require Oracle-specific libraries for compilation. You will not be able to build these extensions until some of the licensing issues have been sorted out. The compiled classes will be checked in soon so that people without those dependancies can use the compiled classes.
• jpa/eclipselink.jpa - EclipseLink's JPA support
• foundation/eclipselink.core.lib - this will contain all the libraries the core depends on to build.

Testing

Note: Before testing in Eclipse using the Testing Browser - you will need to a full root build of EclipseLink in 'trunk>ant' so that the test jars eclipse*model.jar get created and placed on the root of jpa/eclipselink.jpa.test. Please refresh your eclipselink.jpa.test project to pick these up before running the Testing Browser eclipse launch target.

• foundation/eclipselink.core.test - the core testing for EclipseLink
• foundation/eclipselink.extension.oracle.test - the testing for EclipseLink's Oracle-specific functionality. Like the extension.oracle directory, this will only build after some licensing issues have been sorted out.
• jpa/eclipselink.jpa.test - the JPA tests for EclipseLink

Projects and Dependencies

Eclipse Projects are available for eclipselink.core, eclipselink.core.lib, eclipselink.core.test jpa, jpa.test, sdo, sdo.test, moxy and moxy.test. These projects should allow you to use most of the core EclipseLink functionality.

Until our dependencies have been checked in, you should be able to build use the following dependencies to build.

1. eclipselink.core depends on the following:
   1. eclipselink.core.lib - The Eclipse Project defined in this folder
2. eclipselink.jpa depends on the following:
   1. eclipselink.core - The Eclipse project defined in this folder
3. eclipselink.core.test should have all its dependencies already set but provides an ant build that sets up some xml files to run
4. eclipselink.jpa.test should have all its dependencies already set but provides an ant build to build persistence units for testing
5. eclipselink.extension.oracle depends on a selection of jars from Oracle products. In order to build this project you will need to obtain all these jars. As a result the class files from this project are checked in so they can be used by people that do not have those jars
   1. Jars:
      1. aqapi.jar - Oracle Advanced Queue
      2. sdoapi.jar - Oracle Spatial API
      3. An oracle JDBC driver
      4. xdb.jar - XDB
      5. xml.jar - Oracle XML support
      6. xmlparserv2.jar - Oracle XML parser
   2. Projects
      1. eclipselink.core depends on the same jars as foundation/extension.oracle and as a result, it has also had class files checked in
6. eclipselink.extension.oracle.test depends on
   1. eclipselink.extension.oracle
   2. eclipselink.core.test
   3. eclipselink.jpa
7. eclipselink.moxy depends on the following:
   1. eclipselink.core
8. eclipselink.moxy.test depends on the following:
   1. eclipselink.moxy
   2. eclipselink.core
   3. Eclipse Library JUnit 3 - this is already configured, but there have been issues with Eclipse version 3.2 where the library needs to be reselected in order for JUnit to be picked up properly.
9. eclipselink.sdo depends on the following:
   1. eclipselink.core
   2. eclipselink.core.lib
10. eclipselink.sdo.test depends on the following:
    1. eclipselink.sdo
    2. eclipselink.core
    3. TOOLS_LIB variable has been mapped to your JDK tools.jar for a runtime dependency
    4. Eclipse Library JUnit 3 - this is already configured, but there have been issues with Eclipse version 3.2 where the library needs to be reselected in order for JUnit to be picked up properly.

Port TODO List

List of task, items, issues, refactorig left to due from the initial port.

• Get all tests passing. - JPA JUnit tests and legacy LRG model currently pass
• Move left-over internal classes to internal packages.
• Internationalization.
• Server tests.
• Sun Corba and RMI-IIOP - are these elements still required in EclipseLink. If so, make sure tests work. Else, remove.
• Make all server platforms work. i.e. address the fact that they all need to be reflective to compile

How To

• General prerequisites for building & running EclipseLink tests
• Make changes to ANTLR generated JPA code
• Run the legacy LRG
• Run the JPA Junit tests
• Run the MOXy Junit tests
• Run the SDO Junit tests
• Automated/Scripted SVN checkout
• Optimize SVN