I like NetBeans for maven-based development. All I need is a version of the Generate Tests plugin and I'm set.
Jeremy Keiper OpenMRS Core Developer AMPATH / IU-Kenya Support On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <[email protected]>wrote: > I feel most of the problems that developers have been facing due to maven > come from the bad Maven plugin (m2 eclipse) for eclipse. I would recommend > using a different IDE that has better out-of-the-box support for Maven :-) > ... > > Hopefully things will change soon given that m2ec has become a core project > starting from 3.7, but people should also look at IAM plugin if that suits > someone better > > --- > Regards, > Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA > > My Tech Blog: http://sunnytalkstech.blogspot.com > You Live by CHOICE, Not by CHANCE > > > On 7 September 2011 17:31, Omar Ahmed <[email protected]>wrote: > >> As a developer who does not have vast Java experience I found OpenMRS much >> easier to work with and build modules when it was based on Ant. >> I have faced the issue Dave pointed out several times in the past as well >> with Maven haven't still found a silver bullet answer to that (Admittedly, I >> didn't know about the JavaNature then). While I appreciate the positives >> managing dependencies, etc that come with Maven, if the development >> environment could be made as simple as adding a build file in Eclipse, >> selecting targets and hitting go, it would come come as a substantial gain >> for the start up developers on OpenMRS. >> Omar >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Glen McCallum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't think all the issues are openmrs correctable. >>> >>> I had a difficult time getting maven up and going on my mac (suranga >>> helped me). In the end the eclipse plugins didn't work correctly - I always >>> got strange build errors. >>> >>> But maven worked great on the command line … perhaps the problem was >>> nothing to do with the maven setup of openmrs. >>> >>> Glen >>> >>> >>> On 2011-09-01, at 10:48 AM, Burke Mamlin wrote: >>> >>> +1000 >>> >>> Getting our development environment humming – including sorting out the >>> best way to configure Maven so that things just work – is effort that will >>> pay off a thousand-fold. Perhaps we could have someone spike on the issues >>> & potential solutions around our development setup (Eclipse/Maven/etc) from >>> the perspective of a developer that just wants to concentrate on coding? >>> >>> It doesn't help that our development environment is a moving target – >>> installation instructions are changing substantively… at least recently. >>> >>> -Burke >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Dave Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I ran into all kinds of crazy stuff including everything resolving >>>> correctly besides java.lang.enum. And package problems, but everything is >>>> fine now - its all about the classpaths. >>>> >>>> why don't our mavenized projects include the classpaths and java >>>> natures? it seems like the marginal productivity gains to be had from >>>> using >>>> maven are going to be lost messing around with eclipse. And the stuff I >>>> did >>>> yesterday for a junior programmer looking up error messages at less than >>>> 5k/sec for a whom english is a second language is going to be a very real >>>> barrier to openmrs coding... >>>> >>>> I'm all for easy unit tests, but I'm not going to get those hours back >>>> either... >>>> On Sep 1, 2011 6:15 PM, "Mark Goodrich" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Thanks Wyclif... this seemed to work for me. I just need to make sure >>>> I'm working on the sync or sync-api projects, not the sync-parent project. >>>> > >>>> > @Dave-did this fix the problem for you? >>>> > >>>> > Mark >>>> > >>>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wyclif >>>> Luyima >>>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:45 PM >>>> > To: [email protected] >>>> > Subject: Re: [OPENMRS-DEV] eclipse and maven >>>> > >>>> > Hi Dave, have you tried this; >>>> > >>>> > right click on project -> maven -> update project configuration >>>> > >>>> > That should add JavaNature to your natures tag in the .project file. >>>> > >>>> > If the above doesn't work, add this >>>> <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature> to the natures tag in the >>>> .project file >>>> > >>>> > Wyclif >>>> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Dave Thomas <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> > Hi. I just checked out the new mavenized sync module, and i got it to >>>> > compile fine. But, now i can't write code in the project. When I >>>> > type in a java class, for example, 'Context.', rather than getting a >>>> > suggestion for methods in the openmrs Context object, i get an eclipse >>>> > error -- >>>> > >>>> > This compilation unit is not on the build path of a java project >>>> > >>>> > Does anyone know how to get the eclipse editor to use the dependencies >>>> > as a classpath essentially, so i can get back to writing code? >>>> > >>>> > thanks, dave >>>> > >>>> > _________________________________________ >>>> > >>>> > To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail >>>> to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with >>>> "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. >>>> > >>>> > [mailto:[email protected]<mailto: >>>> [email protected]>?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l] >>>> > >>>> > ________________________________ >>>> > Click here to >>>> > unsubscribe<mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l> >>>> from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list >>>> >>>> > >>>> > _________________________________________ >>>> > >>>> > To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail >>>> to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the >>>> body (not the subject) of your e-mail. >>>> > >>>> > [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l] >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> Click here to >>>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from >>>> OpenMRS Developers' mailing list >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from >>> OpenMRS Developers' mailing list >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Click here to >>> unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from >>> OpenMRS Developers' mailing list >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Omar Ahmed >> Engineer, >> >> Interactive Research and Development (IRD) >> Suite 508, Ibrahim Trade Tower >> Main Shahrah-e-Faisal >> T: +92(21) 34327697 >> W: www.irdresearch.org >> > > ------------------------------ > Click here to > unsubscribe<[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-devel-l>from > OpenMRS Developers' mailing list > _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Developers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-devel-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. 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