[xwiki-dev] Errors building in eclipse

[Marc Lijour]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 06:42, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
> As per a page
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/BuildingInEclipse there are a
> couple of issues if one tries to build XWiki inside eclipse.
>
> Is it of interest to get this working properly ? if so there is a
> .classpath file that fixes some (trivial) problems (
> http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Community/BuildingInEclipse/.classp
>ath ).
>
> The catus ant task def has some errors (inside eclipse anyway) - seems to
> be due to the interaction between cactus-ant and junit the following
> warning is issued:
> A class needed by class org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask cannot
> be found: junit/framework/TestListener    xwiki-trunk    build.xml    line
> 211

You don't need to copy the junit jar file into ant/lib, although that is what 
the ant cactus task documentation is recommending. But I had problems with 
conflicting junit jar files in the past.

You can do menu Run > External tools > External tools, to create a 
configuration for your ant build -if not already done (usually the tool does 
it for you). Then go to the classpath tab and click on 'User Entries', and 
then the 'Add JARs...' button on the right. You select the junit jar file 
from xwiki/lib and all the rest will work without complaints.

> This actually prevents the ant script from being executed correctly - since
> I don't (currently) run the targets that needs this I can get around the
> problem by simply commenting out the taskdef - however I'm a bit stumped on
> how to fix this properly (since the class in question should be available).
>
> Assuming building in eclipse is desired (and that the svn repository should
> contain the .classpath and other . files used by eclipse) shall I simply
> open a couple of jira's for these problems ?

There is a .classpath I believe but I could not find a way to modify it to 
make the ant build work. Tell me if you do ;-)