Re: [stellation-res] Easier setup in Eclipse: here it is.

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*Very* cool. Thanks!

	-Mark

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 05:08 am, Ringo De Smet wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> As an Eclipse user, I found the description on how to setup things
> overly complex. So I invested a little time to make things much easier.
>
> 1) Eclipse has an Update Manager to install new and update existing
> plugins. Stellation requires a number of third-party libraries (ORO,
> Log4J, JDOM and JDBC drivers. Except for the JDBC drivers, I have
> packaged the other three libraries as plugins and these are installable
> now through the Update Manager. The "setting_up_html_patch.txt" file in
> attachment contains the changes to the Eclipse set up documentation.
>
> 2) Now that you have the plugins available in your Eclipse workbench,
> you can just select these plugins as required plugins for the
> Stellation core plugin. The "core_plugin_xml_patch.txt" is a patch
> against plugin.xml file of the Stellation core plugin.
>
> 3) By setting up everything using required plugins instead of
> additional runtime libraries, the SWT variable was no longer needed in
> the Stellation UI plugin. I removed all the documentation of setting
> the SWT variable in Eclipse from the Eclipse set-up documentation.
>
> Hope everything is clear. If not, put your questions on the mailing
> list!
>
> Ringo
>
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