Hi Richard, Richard Kelly <[email protected]> wrote on 04/21/2009 11:53:11 PM:
> Hi everyone, > > It looks like my Google Summer of Code proposal to implement Unicode > normalization in Xerces was accepted, > so I look forward to working with you all over the coming months. Your proposal was one of 38 which were selected this year for the ASF. That's out of over 200 applications to Apache. Congratulations! > I'm starting off by making a development environment to write code for > Xerces. Does anyone have any tips for setting up > a dev environment? In particular, are there specific versions of > software that I should be using? I know I should be using > JDK 1.3. Should I just be getting Ant from the Xerces tools repository? I recommend using Eclipse. We've got .project and .classpath files checked into the repository so when you do an extract in Eclipse the environment should automatically be set up properly, even auto-detecting JDK 1.3 if you have that installed. Also has settings predefined for code formatting (e.g. tab == 4 spaces) and a template which automatically adds the Apache license header to new Java source files so you don't have to worry about remembering to do that. As for the build tools, you should find all of the ones we use in the 'tools' dir. If you have other versions of these around (e.g. Ant) they should probably work too. The project is fairly self contained, so can execute build.bat / build.sh immediately after an extract if you have the JAVA_HOME environment variable set. Also fairly straightforward doing this in Eclipse with its built-in support for Ant and JUnit. > thanks, > Richard > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
