Plugin Development

Setting up the project

1. Clone project from git

   git clone git@github.com:OpenLiberty/liberty-tools-eclipse.git

2. Start up Eclipse (create a new directory to use as the workspace - not the cloned repo above^)

3. Import the project (multiple ways to do this):

   1. Click on Window > Show View > Other...

   2. Search "git" and click on Git Repositories

   3. From the Git Repositories view, right click > Add a Git Repository

   4. Add the liberty-tools-eclipse directory that you cloned in step 1.

   5. Right click on the new repo and Import Projects

Starting the development workspace

1. Setup the target platform information (versions, addons and such):

   1. Go to releng/target-platform and open target-platform.target

   2. Click Set as Active Target Platform in the top Right

2. Launch the plugin (this will open a "child" Eclipse window with the plugin installed)

   NOTE: At the moment, we either need to launch the child eclipse app with MAVEN_HOME/GRADLE_HOME configured OR make sure the Maven/Gradle wrapper (mvnw/gradlew) is included in whatever test app we import.

   1. Under bundles right click on liberty

   2. (Wrapper in test app) Run As > Eclipse Application

   3. (Setting MAVEN_HOME) Run As > Run Configurations > Eclipse Application > New Configuration > Environment tab > Add your MAVEN_HOME variable here

Notes:

• Supported Java version: 11 and 17