Development Environment Setup

This guide explains how to use Maven in Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans.

Eclipse

using maven integration plugin for eclipse

  • Install the eclipse-plugin 'Eclipse Maven Integration' from eclipse marketplace site http://marketplace.eclipse.org.
  • Check out itracker from SVN, usually trunk-version.
  • Import the checked out project using maven import-wizzard: File > Import ... > General > Maven Projects

More information: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/maven-integration-eclipse/

IDEA

Create new project

  • VCS > Check out from Version Control > Subversion
  • Connect repository https://ranks@svn.code.sf.net/p/itracker/code
  • Check out /itracker/trunk
  • Configure the detected Frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, Struts)
  • Set-up /src/main/webapp/META-INF/context.xml to configure the environment (datasource, mailsession)

More information: http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/maven-integration-eclipse/

NetBeans

NetBeans includes full Maven support since 6.7, including Maven 3 support in 7.0+. You can open any Maven project in the IDE and start coding immediately. For more information see the NetBeans.org wiki page.

For older NetBeans

run mvn netbeans-freeform:generate-netbeans-project

More details: this guide.

Maven

Tomcat Deploy

To deploy/undeploy application you can use Tomcat Maven Plugin. It provides goals to manipulate WAR projects within the Tomcat servlet container.

The most interesting are:

  • mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean tomcat6/7:deploy deploy application without tests
  • mvn tomcat6/7:undeploy undeploy application.

More information: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin.html

For application debug you can use RemoteDebug mode.

It is useful to install antiJARLocking="true" property in context.xml to avoid JAR file locking If true, the Tomcat classloader will take extra measures to avoid JAR file locking when resources are accessed inside JARs through URLs. This will impact startup time of applications, but could prove to be useful on platforms or configurations where file locking can occur. If not specified, the default value is false.

More information: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html

Run Tomcat

To run itracker directly from Maven using tomcat6 or 7 plugin (default 'main' database) use the command
mvn package tomcat6:run -Pitracker.tomcat
or mvn package tomcat7:run -Pitracker.tomcat

Configure the file src/main/tomcat/context.xml to change the runtime environment which are filtered and copied for runtime to target/tomcat-itracker/ or set the appropriate properties in maven POM.

open browser at http://localhost:8888

Run Jetty

To run directly fom Maven using jetty plugin (in-memory database) use the command mvn package jetty:run

Configure files in ${jetty.configSrc} (src/main/jetty/jetty.xml and src/main/jetty/jetty-env.xml) which are filtered and copied for runtime to target/jetty-itracker/ or set the appropriate properties in maven POM.

open browser at http://localhost:8888

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