Servoy is a plugin for the Eclipse platform, so to develop the Servoy codebase an Eclipse SDK environment with Eclipse Plugin development facilities is required.

Download & install

In order to get started with development on one of the open source Servoy projects, the following is required:

1. A Servoy Developer installation, with the SQL Explorer plugin installed
2. A separate Eclipse environment with the Eclipse plugin development tools installed 
3. Configuration of the Eclipse installation

Installing Servoy Developer

The installer for Servoy Developer can be downloaded after login in at http://www.servoy.com/download. Running the installer will install Servoy Developer.

For a more indepth description of installing Servoy Developer, see Installing Servoy Developer|.....\

After installation, start Servoy Developer and install the SQL Explorer plugin. See [] for more information.

Installing Eclipse with the Eclipse plugin development tools

Teh open source Servoy projects are all plugins for the Eclipse environment, so in order to develop on one of the projects a Eclipse version with Eclipse plugin development tools installed is required.

The Eclipse.org download page (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) lists a wide range of prepackaged Eclipse distributions, one being the 'Eclipse for RPC/Plug-in Developers'. Although the plugin development tools can be installed in any Eclipse environment, the easiest is to download the 'Eclipse for RPC/Plug-in Developers' distribution and install it.

Configuration

Start the Eclipse installation and choose or create a workspace into which the development on open source projects of Servoy will take place.

The following configuration needs to be done:

1. Setup a variable: Go to Window > Preferences > Run/Debug > String Substitution and create a new variable names 'servoy_install' with the value of the directory where Servoy is installed.

Installation & setup

• Download & install Servoy Developer. 
• Download & install a version of Eclipse with Eclipse Plugin Development features installed (Eclipse SDK)
• Start Eclipse SDK and create a new Workspace
• Install an SVN plugin
• Checkout the Servoy Codebase from SVN
• Add a new target platform (Preferences > Plugin Development > Target platform > add).
  • Add a Location under "Locations" of type "directory" and point it to the developer directory of the Servoy Developer installation
• Create a new Debug Launch configuration (Run > Debug Configurations)
  • Select the "Eclipse Application" node and click the "New launch configuration" button
  • On the "Main" tab:
    • Provide a Name
    • Specify a workspace location under "Workspace Data" by clicking "File System". Select the workspace containing your Servoy solution projects  
    • select 'com.servoy.eclipse.core.ide' under "Main" > "Program to run" > "Run a product"
  • On the "Arguments" tab:
    • Point "Working directory" > "Others:" to the developer directory of the existing Servoy installation, by clicking the "File system" button
  • Apply the changes

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