Gyrex/Preparing Your Workspace For Developing Gyrex

Here's how to set up your workspace for developing Gyrex.

1. Download and install any Eclipse distribution suitable for developing Eclipse plug-ins. We recommend trying the latest Eclipse milestone for access to the latest features in JDT and PDE.

Required plug-ins:

• Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment
• Eclipse CVS Client
• Eclipse Subversion Client
• Eclipse Git Client

2. Checkout our pre-build target platform.

• File -> Import... -> SVN -> Checkout Projects from SVN -> Next
• Create a new repository location -> Next
• Url: https://wagenknecht.org/svn/public/opensource/eclipse/target-platforms -> Next
• Select the top level folder (i.e. the URL) -> Finish

3. Activate the target platform.

• Expand project "target-platforms"
• Open file "eclipse-serverside.target" in Target Definition editor (simple double click should do the trick)
• Click on link "Set as Target Platform" (located in the upper right corner of the Target Definition editor)

4. Download, install and configure Java 6 JDK.

• Download and install your preferred Java 6 JDK
• Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs -> Add... -> Standard VM -> Next
• Set JRE home to the Java 6 JDK folder -> Finish
• Activate check-box to set Java 6 JDK as the default JDK in Eclipse

5. Download and import the Team Project Sets.

• Download Team Project Set from here
• File -> Import... -> Team -> Team Project Set -> Next
• Point to downloaded project set file -> Finish
• Confirm creation of repositories and any merge request with existing working sets

6. Optimize project browsing.

• Switch to the Java perspective
• Open the Package Explorer view menu (little triangle icon in the upper right corner) and select "Top Level Elements -> Working Sets"
• Select all working sets ("Select All")
• We recommend sorting the working sets (check "Sort working sets")
• We also recommend hierarchical package browsing (open the Package Explorer view menu and this time select "Package Presentation -> Hierarchical")