Setting Up a Metacat Eclipse Project

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Run metacat on eclipse Download eclipse ganymede: go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/ganymede/sr2 choose Eclipse IDE for Java Developers extract tar.gz to /Applications/eclipse Get svn plugin: in eclipse, go to Help/Software Updates add the following update site: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x Note this may change for newer versions. Check at http://subclipse.tigris.org/ for newer versions Choose to install all the packages under that site Check out metacat code: in eclipse go to the svn repository view click in window under svn repositories and chosse "add svn repository" add https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/metacat add https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/utilities add https://code.ecoinformatics.org/code/seek for each, open tree and right click on trunk choose "checkout from svn" check out as a project using the wizard choose java project create a new project in workspace. Note, if you want to check out a certain branch or tag, browse to that tag in the tree and follow the same steps as above. Set met Set up Tomcat: go to http://tomcat.apache.org and get tomcat 6.0 binary tar.gz and extract (or on ubuntu, do apt-get install tomcat) get tomcat eclipse plugin at: http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html extract zip and move resulting dir into /plugins directory restart eclipse In eclipse preferences, go to tomcat Set version to correct value (6 recommended) Set tomcat home to directory where you just installed tomcat
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