[Jsdsi-devel] Installing Maven, Eclipse and JSDSI on Windows 2000

[Sean R. <sra...@ae...>]

Here's a step by step guide that I just did to get Maven working on
Windows 2000 (a box that has a correctly installed JDK).

1. Download maven-1.0-rc1.zip
(http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html)

2. Extract the downloaded zip to your target directory, e.g. C:\java\ -
resulting in c:\java\maven-1.0-rc1

3. set MAVEN_HOME to 'C:\java\maven-1.0-rc1' via the 'Control
Panel\System\Advanced\Environment Variables\User Variables'

4. Add %MAVEN_HOME%\bin to 'Path' environment variable similar to above

5. Open a console and run 'set' to check that the environment variables
are set correctly. (An easy way to open a command prompt is
'Start\Run...', enter 'command' and press 'ok')

6. From the command prompt run 'install_repo.bat
%HOMEPATH%\.maven\repository' - On some boxes the environment variable
is HOME, you can check this by running the 'set' command and looking for
which entry points to 'C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME'

7. At the command prompt run 'maven -g' to check that Maven is running -
all the maven goals are listed...

8. Download and install Eclipse (Latest stable version 3 build is
currently 3.0-M7)

9. Run Eclipse

10. Set-up jsdsi cvs repository in Eclipse for browsing (make sure to
use extssh or ext if you will want to write to the repository later)

11. In the CVS repository browser select the HEAD branch of
cvsroot/jsdsi

12. Under the above, select the jsdsi directory and right-click

13. Select 'Check Out As...'

14. Make sure 'Check out as a project configured using the New Project
Wizard' is selected 

15. Press Finish

16. Select 'Java' and 'Java Project' and press 'Next'

17. Enter project name 'jsdsi' in the text box and press 'Next'
(optionally enter an alternate project location in the 'Project
Contents' information area)

18. When asked to switch Perspective select yes

19. Using a text editor, e.g. Notepad create a text file called
'build.properties' in your home directory ('C:\Documents and
Settings\YOURUSERNAME'). The contents of the file is a single entry:

maven.eclipse.workspace=ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE_PATH

Where ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE_PATH should be replaced by the path to your
Eclipse Workspace (the default being 'ECLIPSE_HOME\workspace') As an
example:

maven.eclipse.workspace=C:\programs\eclipse-3.0-M7\workspace

19. Save your 'build.properties' file.

20. Go back to the command prompt

21. 'cd' to the location where you checked-out jsdsi to during step 17 -
The default location is 'ECLIPSE_HOME\workspace\jsdsi', where
ECLIPSE_HOME is the location of your Eclipse installation

22. Within the jsdsi directory run 'maven eclipse:add-maven-repo' - This
adds a variable to Eclipse so it knows where your Local Maven Repository
is.

23. Next run 'maven eclipse' - This creates the correct eclipse
'.project' and '.classpath' files.

24. In eclipse, 'refresh' your jsdsi project.

25. All should now be correctly set-up... 


Hope this help,


Sean

(This is something to move to the site I should guess - ideally with
some screenshots)

-- 
Dr. Sean Radford, MBBS, MSc
sra...@ae...
http://www.aegeus-technology.com