I am trying this right now. Will let you know if there is any success or how I achieve any success.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Marc Chamberlin <m...@marcchamberlin.com>wrote: > I would like to learn how to run James from Eclipse and up front will > admit that I am not a guru with Eclipse.. (Have used it some in the > past, but not very savoy with it.) > > Am trying to follow the instructions found at > http://wiki.apache.org/james/EclipseNotes and got rapidly lost.. > > 1. I managed to get James checked out from the Apache SVN repository > without problems. > > 2. Verify Checkout and I hit the first snag. The instructions say to > run the Ant 'build' script. I used find to hunt for a build.xml file and > could not find it. Ant of course complains about this... > > So reading the BUILD.txt file it says I should use a different build > tool - maven. So I downloaded that and installed it. Then ran the > command mvn clean package which produced 18 minutes worth of output, > amongst which I noted several stack walkbacks from some kind of > exceptions. I dunno where, if any, a log file exists that would capture > all of this, but if anyone wishing to help wants to see it, please guide > me to it and I will post.... > > 3. The third section on this web page talks about Modularization, and > this totally lost me. It says to start by creating a new user library > containing all the jars in stage.... Stage??? What and where is stage? > > Now lost, I decided to go off and play with Eclipse to see where I am > at. The first thing I knew it was going to be asking for is where is > main. Hunting around I found a main class in james/container-spring so I > added this to the build path source folders, and pointed the run/debug > configuration for the Main class at it. That indeed brought the > container-spring stuff into the project but with lots of errors. I took > a look to see what was going on and it appears that the package > declarations in each of the source files differs from the way files are > organized in the file system as checked out from SVN. I.E. the > declarations start with org.apache.james.... while the expected package > (based on the file system organization) is > src.main.java.org.apache.james... for example. My own experience with > Java development on Eclipse, in the past, agrees that the file system > organization is unexpected... So SPLAT! I have hit a brick wall and > dunno how to proceed... I guess I could modify all the package > declarations and see where that leads me, but somehow I suspect that is > not the path I should proceed down.... > > Anyone care to lead this poor lost java soul out of the woods? I > probably am going to be asking quite a few "newbie type" questions as a > lot of this is unfamiliar to me. (FYI, I have managed to do some > Tomcat development/debugging in the past with Eclipse, so I was kinda > expecting James development to be somewhat similar.) Thanks in > advance... Marc.. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > >
