Auto-generate Eclipse .project and .classpath files for Qpid Java components
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Key: QPID-3181
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-3181
Project: Qpid
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Ant Build System
Reporter: Keith Wall
Assignee: Keith Wall
Priority: Minor
For those who use Eclipse and prefer to have the Qpid Java components in
separate Eclipse projects know that there is much manual effort required to
import the projects, set up source paths, class-paths, and establish
dependencies between projects. This has been discussed on the dev-list. I
know I can spend up to half an hour getting the manual setup done.
I've written an extension to the build system that uses
http://ant-eclipse.sourceforge.net/ to create the Eclipse .project and
.classpath files automatically for each of the Java components (broker, common,
client etc). The new targets make use of the existing properties used by the
Ant build process: source folders come from ${module.src} etc, classpaths from
${module.libs} etc and the project dependencies are computed from automatically
${module.depends} so there is no new configuration to maintain.
There is still a single *manual step* required within Eclipse (to create a
linked source from broker, common, client and broker-plugins-access-control
projects to their auto-generated code source folder beneath build/scratch) as
Ant Eclipse does not yet support the creation of linked-sources, but after this
is done you have a fully imported Qpid with zero errors :).
I will put together a Wiki page to provide instructions.
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