Infrastructure Guide

This manual describes the common infrastructure used to check out, develop and build various Eclipse-based products and features.

It is applicable to GDA and Dawn, and related components.

It does not cover the code internals of any specific product (for that, see the applicable Developer Guide).

• 1. Software required for development
  • 1.1. Java JDK
  • 1.2. Eclipse IDE (Eclipse 4.5.2 “Mars SR2”) - pre-configured version
  • 1.3. Eclipse IDE (Eclipse 4.5.2 “Mars SR2”) - install and configure
  • 1.4. Buckminster Headless
  • 1.5. pewma.py
  • 1.6. Python
• 2. Accessing source code repositories and p2 sites
  • 2.1. Locations and Access
  • 2.2. Subversion
  • 2.3. Git
  • 2.4. Cross-platform considerations
• 3. Checking out source code
  • 3.1. Set up a new Eclipse workspace
  • 3.2. Materializing a workspace using the Eclipse IDE
  • 3.3. Materializing a workspace using Headless Buckminster
  • 3.4. Effective Buckminster
  • 3.5. Troubleshooting Buckminster problems
• 4. Software Development
  • 4.1. Running JUnit tests
• 5. Workflow - Branching, Merging, Releasing
  • 5.1. Command line workflow
  • 5.2. IDE workflow
  • 5.3. Creating the training repositories
  • 5.4. Git branching model
• 6. Building the product
  • 6.1. Building and Starting the GDA Server and Client
• 7. Components used in the product
  • 7.1. Target Platform Components
  • 7.2. Pydev
• 8. Developer Tools
  • 8.1. Developer Tools Plugin
• 9. Writing and Publishing Documentation
  • 9.1. Checking out the documentation source
  • 9.2. Structure of a manual
  • 9.3. Building and Publishing
• 10. Supporting Infrastructure
  • 10.1. Gitolite
• 11. Glossary