Hi Richard, I have done all my customization to Roller in Eclipse, including debug. You should be able to get setup in about 15 minutes. Here is how I did it.
Environment: - Eclipse Europa, with web tooling - Tomcat 6.0.13 - postgres 8.2.4 - windows xp - roller 3.1 Steps to create the setup. 1. Create Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse 2. from the roller unzip dir copy webapp\roller\* into WebContent in Eclipse 3. Create a source folder called resources 4. Move the contents of WebContent\WEB-INF\classes into the resources folder. This way you can make changes to .properties files and eclipse will put them automatically into WEB-INF\classes 5.Create a source folder for your code, and put your customizations there. In my case I have only added models and changed some tags in roller for example the calendar tag to change the arrow buttons on it. My favourite method is to link the roller jars into the roller sources eclipse can do easily, that way you can navigate through the roller code easisly via eclipse shortcuts. Once I can navigate the code out I create my own models in my own packages which don't interfer with roller, that way I don't have to touch and recompile the roller intself. 6. If you want to make more major changes to roller, I would delete the roller specific jar files from WEB-INF\lib and then unzip the source code into a normal eclipse source folder, then hack on it as much as you want. 7. In WebContent\META-INF put a tomcat context.xml which points to your local database 8. Right click on the projcet > Run AS > Server Application and you will be able to do debugging, hot code replace and all other great stuff you are used to doing with roller. hope this helps you Adib -----Original Message----- From: Richard Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Debugging Roller in Eclipse Hi, I've been customizing Roller for a while now, and just wanted to know if it's possible to set-up Roller to be debuggable in Eclipse. I've got various (simpler) Java/Struts/Tomcat projects in Eclipse which I can use the Eclipse built-in debugger, but I've never been able to get Roller using it. Just wanted to know whether to continue trying to get this working, or if it's not possible. Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers, Richard
