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Development Environment 1.0.0M5

• Corona is based upon Eclipse v3.2 (or later).
• All bundles and plugins should be compiled for JDK 1.5

IDE Setup

The Eclipse Workbench IDE should include the following:

• Eclipse SDK v3.2
• Web Tools Platform v1.5
• ECF v0.9.5
• EMF-SDO-XSD v2.2
• org.eclipse.equinox.event
• org.eclipse.equinox.http
• org.eclipse.equinox.log
• axis2 related plugins

  • Simply copy plugins located in the zip file, into your eclipse/plugins directory.

CVS Structure

The name of Corona's CVS's repository is org.eclipse.corona. This location contains all of Corona's artifacts. The structure for Corona's CVS repository is:

org.eclipse.corona
+---build
+---doc
+---examples
+---features
+---maps
+---plugins
|   +---org.eclipse.corona
|   +---org.eclipse.corona.collaboration
|   +---org.eclipse.corona.collaboration.project
|   +---...
+---tests

IDE Projects

The root of Corona's CVS repository is not an Eclipse Workbench IDE project. IDE project's can be checked-out from CVS. Each folder under the CVS plugins folder corresponds to an IDE project.

Eclipse config.ini file

For proper corona startup you'll have to modify your eclipse config.ini file. The file is located in following directory <eclipse>/configuration/config.ini. You need to modify the osgi.bundles section, which indicates which bundles and when should be started.
Currently we're using following configuration:

osgi.bundles=org.eclipse.equinox.common@2:start, org.eclipse.osgi.services@2:start, \
org.eclipse.equinox.log@3:start, org.eclipse.corona.logger.log4j@4:start, \
org.eclipse.update.configurator@3:start, org.eclipse.core.runtime@start, \
org.eclipse.equinox.event@start, org.eclipse.equinox.http@start

Stub Projects

Corona contains several "Stub" projects.
Those projects contain libraries which are still waiting for eclipse IP approval, hence cannot be found in our CVS repository.
Workbench build process of some of those "stub" projects was enhanced, and it should automatically download required libraries. You can find more of that process in automatic build of stub projects section

• org.apache.log4j_1.2.13

  Project requires following libraries:

  • log4j-1.2.13.jar (found in logging-log4j-1.2.13.zip)

  Library required for project can be downloaded from log4j site.

Workbench workaround problem/setup

Temporarily added. Will be removed when problem will be solved.
To get corona compilable in your workspace you'll have to preform additionally following steps:

• Download workaround project.
• Import org.eclipse.corona.pde.workaround project from downloaded zip file into your workspace.
• Modify org.eclipse.corona.axis2.handler.sdo plugin as follows:

  • Goto right click on project->properties->Java Build Path.
  • Open Projects tab.
  • Remove org.apache.axis2.databinding.
  • Remove org.apache.axiom.impl_1.2.0.
  • Add org.eclipse.corona.pde.workaround project.

• Refresh all projects and clean the workspace.

ECF Server Configuration

For proper debugging you'll have to modify org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.1 plug-in located in the directory <eclipse>/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.1. In directory org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.1/conf you can find server.xml file. Please change it's content as follows:

<server>
  <connector protocol="ecftcp"  hostname="localhost" port="3282" timeout="30000">
    <group name="server"/>
    <group name="corona"/>
  </connector>
</server>

For ECF 0.9.2 you need to unzip the org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.2.jar to a folder org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.2 edit the server.xml file as described above. Remove org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.2.jar after creating the folder org.eclipse.ecf.server_0.9.2

Projects Javadoc Configuration

Default javadoc configuration ( Window -> Preferences... -> Java -> Compiler -> Javadoc ) for all Corona projects should look as follows:

Corona code formatting

Corona project slightly changed default eclipse code formatting options. If you'd like to use eclipse auto formating feature, please use corona formatting style. The formatting style and how to apply it is described in following corona-dev email.
NOTE: Please copy (as text) emails attachment and save it as 'Eclipse Default Format with 132 Line Width.xml' file than proceed with emails instructions.

Corona default code templates

Corona default code templates can be taken from following corona-dev email.
NOTE: Please copy (as text) emails attachment and save it as 'CoronaFormatter.xml' file than proceed with emails instructions.