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Eclipse M2 Quickstart

This guide is designed to get developers up and running as quick as possible. For a more comprehensive guide see the Eclipse Guide.

M2Eclipse provides tight integration for Apache Maven into the Eclipse IDE.

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Eclipse Maven builder

The maven build supplied with eclipse works with the pom.xml files, however it does recognize some of our custom build steps:

  1. Go to Preferences and navigate to Maven --> Errors/Warning
  2. Change the Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration to Warning.

java-cc-maven-plugin

The Eclipse M2 builder does recognize this plugin, build once on the command line first:

  1. Navigate to **`src/wcs1_1**`.

  2. Compile, to force the code to be generated:

    mvn compile

[INFO] --- javacc-maven-plugin:2.3:jjtree (jjtree) @ gs-wcs1_1 ---
Java Compiler Compiler Version 4.0 (Tree Builder)
(type "jjtree" with no arguments for help)
"src/wcs1_1/target/jjtree/org/geoserver/wcs/kvp/rangesubset/ASTFieldId.java" does not exist.  Will create one.
...
Annotated grammar generated successfully in src/wcs1_1/target/jjtree/org/geoserver/wcs/kvp/rangesubset/rangeset.jj
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- javacc-maven-plugin:2.3:javacc (javacc) @ gs-wcs1_1 ---
Java Compiler Compiler Version 4.0 (Parser Generator)
(type "javacc" with no arguments for help)
Reading from file src/wcs1_1/target/jjtree/org/geoserver/wcs/kvp/rangesubset/rangeset.jj . . .
File "TokenMgrError.java" does not exist.  Will create one.
File "ParseException.java" does not exist.  Will create one.
...
Parser generated successfully.
[INFO]

[INFO] --- fmt-maven-plugin:2.4.0:format (default) @ gs-wcs1_1 ---
[debug] Using AOSP style
[INFO] Processed 47 files (0 reformatted).
[INFO]

Import modules into Eclipse

  1. Use File --> Import to open the Import wizard. Select Maven --> Existing Maven Projects import wizard, and Next.

  2. Define the Root Directory by browsing to the GeoServer src folder.

  3. Open Advanced options:

    • Profiles: release
    • Name template: [[groupId].[artifactId]]{.title-ref}

. Press Finish to start import.

During import use Resolve Later, exclude lifecycle mapping.

Run GeoServer from Eclipse

  1. From the Package Explorer select the web-app module

  2. Navigate to the org.geoserver.web package

  3. Right-click the Start class and navigate to Run as, Java Application

  4. After running the first time you can return to the Run Configurations dialog to fine tune your launch environment (including setting a GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR).

Note

If you already have a server running on localhost:8080 see the Eclipse Guide for instructions on changing to a different port.

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