Setup Development Environment

The following guide will explain how to setup the development environment for Eclipse in order to develop on C4J. If you merely want to use C4J as a framework, please head over to the Installation.

Recommended Plugins:

• Infinitest
• EGit
• m2e (Maven2Eclipse)

Step by step guide:

1. Checkout the sources from https://github.com/C4J-Team/C4J
2. Create a new JRE (or duplicate an existing JRE) within Eclipse called "c4j-jre" using -ea -javaagent:${project_loc:c4j}/dist/c4j-current-all.jar as the "Default VM Arguments". You don't have to use it as default, i.e. you don't need to check the checkbox.
3. Repeat this for yet another JRE named "definalizer-jre" using -javaagent:${project_loc:c4j}/lib/definalizer.jar as the "Default VM Arguments".
4. Build the C4J JAR, by executing mvn clean install in the c4j project.
5. All system- and acceptance-tests should run successfully now, except for the ones commented and linked with an issue.

If you have any questions regarding development on C4J, contact c4j at andrena dot de.