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Building with Eclipse

Prerequisites

Follow all steps described on the Building with Maven page. Make sure you have been able to build the project successfully before continuing with the instructions on this page.

Required Eclipse plugins

Make sure you have the following Eclipse plugins installed:

Create Eclipse projects

  1. Generate .project and .classpath files using Maven:
    ~> cd hippo-site-toolkit
~/hippo-site-toolkit> mvn clean
~/hippo-site-toolkit> mvn eclipse:eclipse
  2. Start Eclipse. Choose a workspace directory outside the directory in which you have checked out the source (~/hippo-site-toolkit in the example).
  3. Define a classpath variable for your Maven repository: (Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Build Path -> Classpath variables; New; name=M2_REPO, value=<path-to-maven-repository>).
  4. Import the generated Eclipse projects (File -> Import -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace; Browse; Select hippo-site-toolkit directory; Finish).