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- First you need to install Subclipse
- Bring up the "SVN Repository" panel in Eclipse (Window/Open Perspective/SVN Repository Exploring)
- Right-Click within panel/New/Repository Location the url is http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/trunk
- Click on Finish. Now, do the initial checkout.
- Click the "+" next to the new repository
- then Right-Click on trunk and select "Checkout...".
- Select "Check out as project in the workspace" and click on "Finish".
- This will create a new project that you can name as you want and download the OFBiz files directly from SVN. To sync your project with SVN in the future, right-click on the project and click Teams/Synchronize with Repository.
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Hide folders from searches
Most of the time you don't want to look into some folders because there is nothing interesting there and they sometimes annoy you because of search errors
Then you tool of choice is https://nodj.github.io/AutoDeriv/
For your convenience here is the content of the .derived file I set at the root of my workspace folder, YMMV...
# sets these folders as derived
*.gradle
.settings
bin
build
gradle
lib
runtime/indexes
runtime/catalina
runtime/data
runtime/logs/birt
runtime/output
runtime/tempfiles
runtime/tmp
runtime/uploads
Using local XSD's when no internet connection is available, or you are using another version than the one online
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