Re: [Geotools-devel] Using Eclipse

[Andrea A. <aa...@op...>]

lim goh ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sorry because this might be more of a geoserver question but I
> think people working on Geotools might have done this before.
> Does anyone knows how to properly use Eclipse to debug Geoserver using
> your own copy of the geotools source?
> 
> For example here's what I did:
> 1. svn checkout geotools and geoserver
> 2. mvn install geotools/geoserver
> 3. mvn eclipse:eclipse geotools/geoserver
> 4. load all the projects into eclipse and setup geoserver to run in an
> mvn jetty container.
> 5. Managed to hit breakpoints in gt-jdbc-postgis.snapshot-2.1.jar (or
> something with that name) under .m2/repository
> 
> But how may I get he source to point to my actual gt-jdbc-postgis
> project in my workspace, and of course change behaviour as I modify
> the code in the project??

So far, many GS developers (me included) have tried to do that, none has
succeeded.
The main idea would be to put the two checkouts side by side and create
a fake parent pom that has geotools and geoserver as modules, and
run mvn eclipse:eclipse from there.

The issue in doing so is that Eclipse exports as part of the project
dependencies also the test dependencies, which are seen from
dependent modules. This generate unpleasing situations in GeoServer,
tests start failing and I'm not sure GS itself work (in any case,
a coding environment where unit tests are not reliable it's worthless).

What we do usually instead is to determine what is going wrong in GS
land, create a new test in GeoTools, make it pass, rebuild with maven
and go back working in GeoServer looking for other misbehaviors.

Anyways, if you manage to make it work for good, let us know, I'm
sure there are people interested in the topic.

Cheers
Andrea


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