Developing With Eclipse

Install the Eclipse Integrated Developer Environment

Install Polarion's Subversive plug-in for Eclipse to enable

Install Maven build manager. Make sure the Maven "bin" directory is in your system path.

Import the symmetric.psf project set file in Eclipse. Go to File->Import, then select Team, Team Project Set.

Configure the Maven repository variable for Eclipse. Select the "symmetric" project and go to Window->Preferences. In the tree, select Java->Build Path->Classpath Variables. Click the New button and enter "M2_REPO" with a value of your ".m2" directory. (Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\user\.m2, Unix: /home/user/.m2)

Common Maven tasks are accessible through Eclipse external tools. Go to Run->External Tools->External Tools. The following tasks are avalable:

  • Symmetric Eclipse
  • Symmetric Compile and Package Only
  • Symmetric Test and Package