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- Right Click under Project Explorer and Select Import->Import...
- On the next window select General->Existing Projects into Workspace. Select Next.
- On the import projects window Browse to <GEP_Source_Home>/trunk. Select Finish.
In case there are some errors try fixing those (consider it as your first step towards working with GEP!
) or else use the Geronimo mailing lists. See How to open a bug for Geronimo Eclipse Plugin for details.
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- Select Run->Run Configurations.
- On the Run Configurations window Select Eclipse Application and Select New button on the top left.
- Name the new configuration as GEP_DEVELOPMENT. Also, change the workspace location name from runtime-New_location to runtime-GEP_Development. Select Apply.
- Next select the Arguments tab for your GEP_Development run configuration and set the VM arguments as follows
Code Block -Xms256m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
- Next select the tracing tab and select the top most 4 jars. See figure below. Select Apply and Run.
- This will launch a new Eclipse window which is nothing but Eclipse + <Your_Plugin_Code>. You can modify the code and each time you can launch your Eclipse Configuration to test the modifications in code.
- TO Debug the code change to Debug Perspective in eclipse and Select Run->Debug Configurations. Select Debug.