The developer guide lists 3 options for umls credentials, and they all
have issues:
1) environment variable
-- tried this one, got errors in .bashrc for illegal variable
names, maybe it works in windows only
2) vm arguments in run configuration
-- works, but then you have to add it for every new run configuration
3) edit the descriptor file
-- runs the risk of accidentally checking in your credentials to svn
I tried setting the values in eclipse.ini, that does not work.
I think now I have stumbled on a decent solution, better than the
options we've had up till now. If you open windows->preferences in
eclipse, then select Installed JREs, and select the jre you use and
click edit. Now a window pops up that lets you put in default VM
arguments. I put in my UMLS credentials here and that seemed to work. In
theory this should then work for all run configurations, you shouldn't
have to re-do it for new run configurations.
Can someone else please verify that this works? And if so should we make
this the default way to do it in developer setup? Any downsides I'm missing?
Tim
