Monday, January 11, 2010

Getting Started: Install Eclipse Galileo and Subclipse 1.6

Install Eclipse
It is a prerequisite that you have Java installed on your machine.
Then, you can download the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers from the page at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Once downloaded, you can simply extract the file and thats it. You can just double click on the Eclipse icon to load the Eclipse IDE for the first time.


Install SubClipse
  1. Open Eclipse
  2. Help > Install New Software
  3. Inside "Work with" field enter http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x and wait for a while to allow retrieving the plugins list from the server.
  4. Select Subclipse and then you know usual next next :-)
  5. Once installed, it will strongly recommend (!) you to restart Eclipse. Please follow the instruction.
  6. Now you should be ready with SubClipse.


Testing Eclipse and SubClipse on Google Code
  1. Go to http://code.google.com/
  2. Sign in with your google account
  3. Click on Project Hosting under the Featured Products at the left column.
  4. Click Contribute to Open Source
  5. Click "Create Project" link and fill up the form.
  6. In the Version Control drop-down, select "Subversion'
  7. After your project is created, click on "Source" Tab. And you will see a URL of the form https://yourproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ yourproject --username your_google_account and also a link to the password.
  8. Open Eclipse > File > Import > SVN > Next > Create a new url > Paste your URL (the portion as shown in blue at #7)
  9. Then specify your google user name and the generated password and continue until the wizard is over.
  10. Now make changes to your project by adding new files and saving them.
  11. To push the changes back to the Subversion Repository, Select File > Team > Commit.
Sounds a lot? Well, all these are for the first time. Once you are done with the initial setup, next time you just select File > Team > Update Head and File > Team > Commit to get the latest code and push your changes respectively.


Please comment on this post if you see any problem in following the instruction.

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