You can find admirable tutorial at http://james.apache.org/server/3/dev-build.html For Eclipse you can read the "Build James Source from Eclipse" chapter... It has worked perfectly for me on J3M2.
Luc. 2011/1/28 agks mehx <[email protected]> > I figured I should send this to the dev list rather than the user list > where > I first sent it to. BTW, I searched the dev archive for eclipse and only > found something from 2003 which is probably outdated. (also, I'm > relatively > new to Eclipse, used to do things in vi and on command-line before) Here > goes: > > How does one step through source in Eclipse? What IDE do you all use? How > do you set it up? > > My failed attempt: > - first, used mvn to successfully build > james-server-3.0-M2-source-release.zip > - second, created project in Eclipse based on the same folder as mvn build > - third, got *inexplicable* errors e. g. AbstractHasMailAttributeTest > cannot be resolved to a type at line 32 > in HasMailAttributeWithValueRegexTest.java > - fourth, searched entire folder including inside all .jar files and .java > files but could not find AbstractHasMailAttributeTest anywhere > - fifth, did not see any import for AbstractHasMailAttributeTest in > HasMailAttributeWithValueRegexTest.java > - finally, many similar inexplicable errors -- makes me wonder how mvn was > able to build it? > > My reason for wanting to step through code -- the config documentation is > out of date and I want to set up a mailet-based mail server application. > Since I am flying blind and don't know how to set up users, etc. I decided > to just step through code and understand what's going on. > > Any updates on ETA for a full release including documentation? > > Thanks!! >
