Development Environment Setup

EclipseTrader is developed using Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo).

• Download and install Eclipse SDK from  http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5.2-201002111343/index.php.
• Download the following packages that composes the target platform:
  • eclipse-platform-SDK-3.5.2 (choose you preferred OS)
  • eclipse-3.5.2-delta-pack.zip (if you want to export to multiple OSes)
  • eclipse-test-framework-3.5.2.zip
• Unpack all packages to a dedicated directory, for example platform-3.5. Do not unpack to the Eclipse SDK directory.
• From Eclipse, open Window -> Preferences and go to Plug-in Development / Target Platform and add a new target platform definition poiting to the directory location above. Make sure to select the new definition as the default (active) target platform.
• The project uses  Subversion as the source code repository, so you need to install an svn Team Provider. We are using  Subclipse.

Now download and import the source code.

Check-out from command line

Check-out the complete source code tree from the subversion repository:

svn co http://svn.eclipsetrader.org/svnroot/eclipsetrader/trunk eclipsetrader

This command checks-out all projects, including JUnit tests and the Nebula Widgets plugins to a directory named eclipsetrader.

Start Eclipse and point the workspace to the eclipsetrader directory (or wherever you have checked-out the source code). Import all projects using File -> Import -> General / Existing Projects into Workspace (leave the Copy projects into workspace option unchecked).

Check-out with Team Project Set

Download trunkProjectSet.psf and import it using File -> Team / Team Project Set. The import should create the subversion and cvs repositories and check-out the source code automatically.

Setup the Run Configuration

EclipseTrader is not meant to be run as a generic Eclipse plugin, it runs as a standalone RCP (Rich Client Platform) application.

• From Eclipse open `Run -> Run Configurations'.
• Select Eclipse Application from the list at the left and select New launch configuration from the toolbar above.
• In the Program to Run box enable Run a Product and select org.eclipsetrader.platform.workbench.
• In the Plug-ins tab select Launch with: plugins-selected below only.
• Deselect all *.tests plugins, they are not needed by the normal application run.
• Deselect all Target Platform plugins and hit Add Required Plug-ins button.
• If the tests plugins are selected, deselect them again, also deselect org.junit and org.eclipse.ant.optional.junit. Click Validate Plug-ins to make sure that all is correct.

The run configuration setup is done, click Run to run EclipseTrader.