All I am trying to get to the point that I can compile and run PDFBox under Eclipse on my Mac, and whilst this hardly seems like a difficult task, sadly I have failed.
I am fairly new to Eclipse (I've used it for PHP mostly before now) although I have used development environments from vim through Zend through Visual Studio in my time so I am not an IDE idiot and I am far from a Java genius I am fluent in C, C++, .Net, PHP, ASP(.net), RPG, COBOL. C#, VB and VB.NET, Javascript and a few others. In short, concepts I understand, specific mouse clicks I'm no expert in. The full story (as best I can). Per the instructions on the web site, I used Eclipse and did File -> New -> Other -> SVN -> Check out projects from SVN Create new repository location at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/trunk Create project using wizard & select Java Project Allow it to get all the source. This creates a Java Project in my Eclipse with a tree that looks like
and this is where the wheels come off for me. In a way, this looks a bit wrong because I have nothing in the src tree and no folders that equate to the package (org.apache.pdfbox) but equally Eclipse isn't complaining about it. The web site suggests setting up a run profile for ExtractText by selecting "run as Java Application" and then adding a new Run Profile. Unfortunately when I try that, I can select PDFBox as the project but the Main class is never found (even though it is clearly in ExtractText.java). I think I have the source tree in the wrong place, becaue I think under src I ought to have a folder org.apache.pdfbox but I do not know if I'm right, nor what I have done to cause that not to happen. I appreciate that I must be doing something staggeringly stupid, but I just cannot work out what. Can any kind soul out there help me? Many thanks in advance Bob Johnson
