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From: Alex Huang <Alex.Huang@citrix.com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:48:05 -0800
Subject: RE: Setting up a better eclipse environment....
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I tried that but it seems to be overloaded.  Like to choose my own plugins =
and keep it to a minimum.  Maybe just psychological but at least I think it=
's faster.

--Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Zhang [mailto:Frank.Zhang@citrix.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:09 PM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Setting up a better eclipse environment....
>=20
> Another tip:
>=20
> Using Spring Tool Suite that is a forked eclipse with Spring features sav=
es you
> much time in installing plugins like m2e(maven plugin)
>=20
> http://www.springsource.org/sts
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alex Huang [mailto:Alex.Huang@citrix.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 5:07 PM
> > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: Setting up a better eclipse environment....
> >
> > Another tip I have is to create one source repo and workspace for one
> > major branch.  We've been changing our environment a lot and it really
> > messes with the whole git checkout <branch> and then have eclipse
> > reconfigure automatically.  It has the added benefit of working on
> > multiple branches at the same time simply by opening multiple eclipses.
> >
> > Just don't create workspaces in the directory you store your source.
> > This used to be okay for me back in the ant days but since the switch
> > to maven, eclipse has had really weird problems with that.  Once I
> > stored the workspace outside of the source directory, everything works
> beautifully.
> >
> > --Alex
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alex Huang [mailto:Alex.Huang@citrix.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 4:55 PM
> > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> > > Subject: Setting up a better eclipse environment....
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've heard this from a couple of developers on eclipse and cloudstack=
.
> > > Thought I share this tip.
> > >
> > > When you open hit Shift-Ctrl-R on eclipse, it opens up the Open
> > > Resource dialogue.  A lot of people do this as a quick way to get to
> > > a file.  With CloudStack, many people see a bunch of .class files
> > > and three or four different .java files of the same name.
> > >
> > > Here's how to get rid of all of that.
> > >
> > >
> > > 1.       Quit Eclipse
> > >
> > > 2.       Make sure your workspace is not stored in the cloudstack dir=
ectory.
> > > (This may be only my problem because I used to like to do that.)  If
> > > your workspace is stored in the directory, you want to delete all
> > > eclipse metadata and create the workspace somewhere else.
> > >
> > > 3.       Remove the eclipse generated bin directory from all of the
> directories.
> > > The reason is because CloudStack projects used to use bin as the
> > > directory for all the eclipse generated .class files but now with
> > > maven based projects, eclipse uses target/classes to store them.  So
> > > now eclipse sees the .class files in the bin directories as
> > > resources that you own.  That's why there's .class files in the Open
> Resource directory.
> > >
> > > 4.       Remove all of the .project files.  This is again because we =
used to
> > > checkin .project files and some of your .project files were not
> > > created from maven pom.xml.  If you did this before, then you can
> > > skip
> > steps 5-8.
> > >
> > > 5.       Start Eclipse.
> > >
> > > 6.       If you deleted your workspace in step 2, then you should cre=
ate a
> > new
> > > workspace.
> > >
> > > 7.       Remove all of the projects.
> > >
> > > 8.       Import all maven projects again.
> > >
> > > 9.       Hit Shift-Ctrl-R to open resource dialogue
> > >
> > > 10.   Click on the down arrow in the upper right of the dialogue box
> > >
> > > 11.   Click on the Edit Active Working Set from the drop down menu
> > >
> > > 12.   Create a working set called cloudstack
> > >
> > > 13.   Add all of the projects to it and then remove the parent projec=
ts.
> The
> > > reason you want to remove them is because they're parent projects
> > > and when you open resource, the open resource dialogue gets the
> > > .java file from both the actual project and the parent projects so
> > > the same .java file appears more than once.
> > >
> > > o   Cloudstack-framework
> > >
> > > o   Cloud-engine
> > >
> > > o   Cloudstack
> > >
> > > o   Cloudstack-plugins
> > >
> > > o   Cloud-services
> > >
> > > 14.   Click on finish
> > >
> > > 15.   Click on the top right drop down button again
> > >
> > > 16.   Make sure "Show derived resources" is not checked
> > >
> > > Another easier way to do this may be to push all your commits and
> > > changes and then delete the source directory and reclone the repo.
> > > Then follow just steps 6-16.
> > >
> > > After doing that, when you hit Ctrl-Shift-R, make sure the
> > > CloudStack working set is selected.  Now only the java file you want =
will
> show up.
> > > There's no .class files and no multiple copies of the same java files=
.
> > >
> > > --Alex