Thanks for the info Rusty, do you want to provide a patch to update our website documentation with these instructions ?
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Rusty Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Once you get past getting the Maven plugin working and forcing Eclipse to > use the JDK instead of the JRE it's really trivial: > > Install the Maven plugin for Eclipse; http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ > > The tricky part with using the Maven plugin for Eclipse is that you need to > set up Eclipse to use the Java JDK, not the JRE. Otherwise Maven won't work > properly. > > On Windows, find Eclipse in your Start menu and right click on it and select > Properties. In the Properties window select the Shortcut tab. In the > Target box you need to add -vm followed by the path to the JDK's javaw, in > quotes. For example, mine has > > "C:\Program Files\eclipse-3.4.0\eclipse.exe" -vm "C:\Program > Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10\bin\javaw.exe" -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx768m > -XX:PermSize=256M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M > > Follow the verifying steps on the m2eclipse web site to make sure that Maven > is working properly within Eclipse. I.e., you don't want to get that error > message from Maven about the JDK in the Eclipse console window. > > Install the Eclipse Subclipse plugin if you haven't already (tigris.org). > Or Subversive, etc. > > In Eclipse right click in the Package Explorer window and select Import and > open the Other folder in the list (at the bottom) and in it select Check out > Maven Projects from SCM. Click the Next button. > > The Target Location window opens; in it use svn for the SCM URL drop down, > and in the url box next to that paste in the svn url; > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/photark/trunk/ > > Click the Finish button. > > Look in the bottom right of the Eclipse window and wait for Maven to finish > doing all of its stuff; it may take quite a while because it needs to > download dependencies. > > After Maven finishes grinding away you'll end up with 4 folders, photoark, > photoark-assets, photoark-gallery, and photoark-gallery-webapp. Apparently > Eclipse doesn't support nested projects so the m2eclipse plugin converts the > project structure to this apparent flat structure; although if you go into > the folder in the Windows explorer it's nested. > > The photoark folder contains the parent pom. Right click on it and select > Maven install. Wait again for Maven to download lots of stuff, or go paint > the bedroom, wash the car, etc. > > I don't remember if I was able to run it from within Eclipse, but it does > generate a .war file and install it in your local repository. > -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/
