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SMILA/Development Guidelines/How to set up integration environment
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WORK IN PROGRESS
This how-to describes the necessary steps for setting up SMILA integration environment. Normally this setup is only interesting for SMILA integrators who just want to integrate their components in SMILA. SMILA committers and contributors should work with another setup described at How to set up the development environment.
Preconditions
Here is the list of things that you will definitely need for developing SMILA components:
- JDK 1.6
- Eclipse SDK - This howto was tested with Eclipse 3.6.2
- SMILA binary distribution
Install the binary distribution
Just pick up the latest stable version of SMILA - release, milestone or nightly build, whatever you need.
The latest stable version can always be found in our download section.
Simply unzip the file you downloaded into a new directory on your local hard disk and you've done with the installation.
Create a new Workspace and setup target platform
Start your Eclipse SDK and let it create a new workspace at a location of your choice. Then you use the SMILA binaries as the target platform for plugin develoment. This enables you to create own bundles that can use the code in the SMILA bundles:
- Open Windows -> Preferences
- Window --> Preferences --> Plug-in Development --> Target Platform --> Add...
- Initialize the target definition with: Nothing --> Next
- Insert some sensible name (how about "SMILA", maybe? ;-)
- In the "Location" tab, click "Add"
- Select "Installation" --> Click "Next"
- In the "Location" slot, browse to your directory where you installed SMILA (do not press <Enter>)
- --> click "Finish"
- In the "Location" tab, click "Add" again
- select "Features" --> Click "Next"
- in the "Location" slot select "${eclipse_home}"
- select Features "org.eclipse.platform" and "org.eclipse.jdt"
- --> click "Finish"
- switch to "Content" tab:
- filter for "junit" and deselect the bundles "org.junit (4.8.1)" and "org.junit4 (4.8.1)". Only "org.junit (3.8.2)" must be selected.
- --> click "Finish"
- Set the new target platform active
- --> click "OK", you're done.
Create a launch configuration for SMILA
- Getting right the selection of bundles to include and activate for SMILA is a bit hard, so we prepared an example package: You can either checkout the contents of [1] or download them as one package from [2].
Testing your code
To be able to use JUnit test your code, you will need to add a JUnit bundle to the target platform. You can do this by copying the directory plugins/org.junit_3.8.2.v20080602-1318 (the exact version numbers may vary in your installation) from your Eclipse installation to SMILA/plugins. You then need to press "Reload" again in the Target Platform pane of Window->Preferences to enable the JUnit bundle.
You may want to check out org.eclipse.smila.test from our SVN repository at http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/rt/org.eclipse.smila/. It contains some base classes for testing OSGi services and JMX agents. There are a lot of bundles named *.test in the repository that can serve you as an example of how to create test cases for crawlers and pipelets.