Install the Eclipse IDE

The default development environment for KPME is Eclipse 3.5 or above.  Any flavor should be ok, but it is recommended to start out with the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers since it is small.

• Download and install Eclipse 3.5 or above.

• Go to your install directory and edit eclipse.ini. You will need to add your JDK and other memory arguments to make sure your environment will run smoothly. The following has the recommended defaults but you may need to increase them in order to match your machine.
• Start eclipse and choose your preferred workspace.
• Verify that you are working on Java 6 by going to Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs. Make sure that jre6 is selected.
• Disable validation by going to Preferences -> Validation and checking Suspend All Validators.
  NOTE: Disabling Validations in this way does not seem to be working in Eclipse Kepler. It causes the kpme-web project build to hang. If you have problems with the build taking a very long time and not building, please see solution in the Troubleshooting section at the bottom of this page.

Install Subversive

• Click Help -> Install New Software.
• In the Work with drop down menu, select the http://download.eclipse.org/releases entry that matches your Eclipse version. Go to Collaboration and select all required Subversive entries.
• Click Finish and continue through all the screens in order to install your software.
• Restart Eclipse when promped.

Install M2Eclipse (Optional)

Note: Only complete this step if using Eclipse 3.6 or below.  Eclipse 3.7 and above have switched to an internal Maven implementation, m2e.

• Help -> Install New Software.
• Click Add and add the location http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e..
• Select your new repository from the drop down list.
• Find and select Maven Integration for Eclipse.
• Click Finish and continue through all the screens in order to install your software.
• Restart Eclipse when prompted.

Create the KPME Maven Project in Eclipse

You will be loading the project into your workspace from a repository via the Subversive plugin.

Checkout and Configure the Project

• In Eclipse, right click in the Package Explorer window and select New -> Other -> SVN -> Project from SVN.
• Select the option to Create a new repository location and select Next.
• Enter the URL https://svn.kuali.org/repos/kpme and other authentication information. Select Next to continue.
• Select "Browse" to bring up a dialog box where you can select the branch you will be working on. Most developers will be on trunk, so just select trunk if you are not given any additional instructions.

• Click Okay, then click Finish.
• When prompted how you want to check out your project, select Check out as a project with the name specified and make sure the name is kpme. Click Finish to begin the install process.

At this point, Subversive for Eclipse will begin the checkout process for KPME and create a new project in your workspace. When the checkout process is complete, do the following

• Right click your new kpme project and select Maven -> Enable Dependency Management.
• Note: If you are not given a menu entry for "Maven", you must convert the project to a maven project. Right click on the project folder and select Configure -> Convert to Maven Project

Maven for Eclipse will download all the jars and files that are listed in the project POM's dependencies.

Install the Kuali Configuration File

In your new project, go to env/src/main/config and copy the config files in the folder into your USER_HOME.

• The main configuration file kpme-config.xml for your server environment should be in USER_HOME/kuali/main/dev/kpme-config.xml.
• The test configuration file kpme-test-config.xml for your unit tests should be in USER_HOME/kuali/test/dev/kpme-test-config.xml.

Import existing maven projects

Now that we have our base project imported into our workspace, we also need to import each of the projects sub modules. This import will not create duplicate projects folders on disk, but rather derive themselves from the existing project.

• In the package explorer view, right click on the project created in the previous sections and select "Import".
  
  
• In the dialog box that pops up, expand "Maven" and select "Import Existing Maven Project".
  
  
  
  
• If the correct project was right-clicked, eclipse's maven should begin scanning the project tree for buried poms. If not, you may need to browse for the location manually ( example:  kpme/core), or escape the dialog and try again.
  
  
  
  
• Once the analysis is complete, the "Import Maven Projects" dialog box should appear, populated with all poms under the project.
  
  
  
  
• Select all projects listed in the dialog box and click "Finish". This may take time, as the projects are imported and then converted to their maven form.

You'll notice the disdain in the workspace with all the newly imported projects. With eclipse, we can employ the use of working sets to organize our workspace.

Working Sets (this step is optional)

Optionally you can set up Working Sets in Eclipse using the steps described here:

Configure Working Sets

Starting the Application Server

• The scripts to launch the application version 2.* reside in the in the kpme-env module. This module also contains the local Kuali configuration files needed for start-up.
• In Eclipse, expand the kpme-env project, and go to src/main/scripts, right-click on the launch file KPME Jetty 7.launch and select Run As...and the file name.
• If all goes well, the server will start up, populate your database, and then launch.
• Once you get the message that the server has started, open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/kpme-dev/Time.do.

Troubleshooting

Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher

• At a command prompt:
• You should receive output that displays version information about your maven installation. If you do not, verify that you have added the variable name M2_HOME, and added it to your path.

Javascript Validation causing build to hang

There are two methods for successfully turning off Javascript Validation in Eclipse:

1) Exclude from Path (best solution)

1. 1. Right click your project
   2. Select Properties -> JavaScript -> Include Path
   3. Select Source tab. ( It looks identical to Java Build Path Source tab )
   4. Expand JavaScript source folder
   5. Highlight Excluded pattern
   6. Click Edit button
   7. Click Add button next to Exclusion patterns box and add the exclusion for the js folder.

The information about JavaScript source inclusion/exclusion is saved into .settings/.jsdtscope file.

Here is how configuration looks with the js folder removed from validation

2) Turn off the JavaScript Validator in the "Builders" config for your project:

Install the Intellij IDE

• Download and install the latest "ultimate" version of Intellij for your platform at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Open source licenses for Kuali development are available, ask you team leader.

• Go to your install directory, then open the 'bin' folder and edit idea64.vmoptions. You will want to increase the base memory settings, but the below should be a good starting point.
• Start Intellij. It will ask you what plugins you want to enable. Selecting the default is fine.

Check out the KHR project from subversion

• Under "VCS", select "Checkout from Version Control" --> "Subversion"
• Click the green "+" button and add the kpme repository: https://svn.kuali.org/repos/kpme
• After adding the repository, it should be listed in the current window. Expand the repository and select the folder you want to check out (usually trunk or something in branches)
• Click "Checkout"
• Select your destination folder (usually something like c:/java/projects/kpme or /java/projects/kpme). You can create folders in this window if they do not exist.
  • Highlight (click) on the folder you want to check out the project to
• Click "OK"
• Click "OK" again
• Select your subversion working copy format.
  • 1.7 or 1.8 should work fine
  • generally it is a good idea to keep this in line with any other subversion client installations you are running (tortoiseSvn, collabnet, etc) to maintain compatibility
• Click "OK"
• After the project has downloaded you should see a window similar to this:
  
• Click "Yes"
• Intellij will then open your project, which may take several minutes.
  • During this, Intellij will ask you if you want to schedule several files for addition to subversion.
    • These are Intellij project files for each of the modules
  • Click "No"
• You may get a window saying "Language level changes will take effect on project reload. Would you like to reload the project "kpme" now?"
  • Click "Yes"
• Intellij will restart.

A few common setup tasks

After intellij restarts, you should be presented with a gray (or black) window that looks similar to this:

Couple of things to point out for new Intellij Users:

• Upper left of the workspace (big darker gray area) there is a button for "Project". Clicking this will give a very nice folder view of the project
• "Changes", bottom, next to TODO, and Terminal is your subversion client
  • Clicking this will present a window at the bottom with local changes, repository changes, and incoming changes tabs
  • To update your project to the latest code base, click Changes, Incoming, Refresh (button that looks like two arrows creating a circle), and then the Update Project button.

Setting up run configurations

Several run configurations can be set up to make life easier.

Set JUnit defaults

In the Run Configuration window (Run --> Edit Configurations), expand the Defaults, and select JUnit

Jetty (Using maven plugin)

Update database (liquibase update)

Run Test suite

Maven clean and install

Tomcat (next two pictures)

Note: for this to work, Tomcat needs to be installed, or unzipped on your computer somewhere. You can then tell intellij where it is located by clicking "Configure" on the screen below. Additionally, you will need to copy the jdbc driver you are using to the Tomcat Servers "lib" directory.