Introduction
This is a quick guide explaining the prerequisites for developing. Most of the contributors in the community use Eclipse, but if you use some other IDE (IntelliJ, NetBeans etc) please feel free to update this page.
nb: _ This stuff should be in docbook (and the starobjects.org umbrella project has some stuff we can take-on, see: http://starobjects.sourceforge.net/m2-site/main/documentation/docbkx/html/developers-guide/developers-guide.html
and http://starobjects.sourceforge.net/m2-site/main/documentation/docbkx/pdf/developers-guide.pdf)_)
Where next?
Once you've got your development environment set up, move on to look at BuildProcess
Java and Maven
For now, just a rough list:
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Where next?
Next, look at BuildProcess