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We highly recommend the use of Eclipse IDE, because all the following instructions are based on it and some settings and the coding conventions can be imported directly into Eclipse. Nevertheless it is possible to use IntelliJ IDEA or Netbeans. |
Prerequisites
- JDK 6 8 or higher
- Eclipse (recommended Eclipse IDE for Java Developers)
- Git, Eclipse egit plugin, or use external Git client - Included from Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 4.2.2
- m2eclipse plug-in (Maven integration for Eclipse) - Included in from Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 3.7 (Indigo)
Install Java and Eclipse
- JDK 6 8 or higher (Sun or OpenJDKOracle JDK is recommended for Linux)
Note: JRE is not suitable for m2eclipse - Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 3.7 (already includes Maven integration and swing designer) or Eclipse Classic (recommended 3.5.2, 3.6.2, 3.7 or e4(at least 4.2.2)
Configure Eclipse
- You can edit the VM options of the eclipse.ini file in your eclipse folder. (-Xmx: the maximum memory for the JVM, Specifying the JVM location)
- Start Eclipse and select the path of the Weasis workspace Note: It is recommended to create a new Workspace for keeping a specific Weasis configuration.
- Go to Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs > Execution Environments and select the installed JDK for JavaSE-1.68
- In Window > Preferences > General > Workspace
- Select UTF-8 for Text file encoding
- Select Unix for New text file line delimiter
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