Eclipse with Devilry

Installing plugins manually

Apache Maven

There are several ways to use Maven with Eclipse:

• The most simple and less poweful is to generate project files using mvn eclipse:eclipse, but does not work very well because it does not maintain dependencies between modules.
• Another method is to use the m2eclipse plugin, but this plugin does not work with our embedded OpenEJB tests.
• q4e works quite well, and is the one I recommend.

After installing the q4e plugin do:
bq. import→maven2→maven2 project

Choose the source/ directory in the repository as “project location”, select “import parent projects” and click finish.

Git plugin

How to use the git plugin is explained in a guide here on github. If you have already:

• checked out the repository using the command-line.
• imported the projects using the maven plugin

you can simply choose:
bq. team→share project

on each project, and choose “search for existing git repositories”.

Markdown plugin

For Markdown editing (like changing the README.md), the markdown editor plugin works very well. Make sure you install the markdown view for easy previews.

Install eclipse using Yoxos OnDemand

You can install almost everything required with yoxos on demand. Choose:

profiles→public profiles→J2EE→devilry-javaEE

The profile contains the Markdown plugin, some useful javaEE utilities like xml editor, the doxia APT editor from the m2eclipse project and the GIT plugin. It does not contain the q4e plugin, so you have to install it as explained in the “manual” section.