content/building-from-source.cwiki

h1. Building from source

h3. Checking out the source

To checkout the source, run this command with your subversion client.

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  svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openejb/trunk/openejb-eclipse-plugin openejb-eclipse-plugin
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h3. Building the source

To build the plugin you will need Maven (the build has been tested with Maven 2.0.7). To run the build, issue this command
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  mvn -Dassemble clean install
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You should be aware that this will download any dependencies, including a copy of Eclipse. This will take a while for your first build.

h3. Importing the plugin code into an Eclipse workspace

You can generate the Eclipse projects for the plugins by running the following command

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  mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
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You can add the M2_REPO classpath variable to your Eclipse workspace by running the following command

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  mvn -Declipse.workspace=<path-to-eclipse-workspace> eclipse:add-maven-repo
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