Chapter 11. Getting started with Java2Script sources
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Getting Java2Script sources
This section is for those developers who want to install Java2Script sources, run the plugin in Eclipse plugins sdk for testing, see how J2S works, be able to change it, fix it, redistribute it with your own modifications, etc
We will use Eclipse 3.6. You should choose an Eclipse distribution that supports for Eclipse plugin development (almost all).
Install Eclipse 3.6 and Java2Script plugin
We will need Eclipse 3.6 with the Java2Script plugin installed in order to build sources. [1]
If you already have Eclipse 3.6 installed and are comfortable doing your Java programming there, you can use it. If not, download an Eclipse 3.6 distribution oriented to Java and Eclipse plugin development, like Eclipse 3.6 Classic. Also download Java2Script plugin for Eclipse 3.6 from Java2Script homepage
As explained in previous sections, installing Java2Script plugin is easy: just extract files and overwrite the plugins Eclipse folder content and restart Eclipse.
Once Eclipse has been restarted, you can verify whether Java2Script plugin is successfully installed or not by going to
Install SVN support
If you are a developer you probably already has SVN support in your Eclipse. If not, this section will explain how you can easily install subclipse using Eclipse marketplace.
Check if you have the Help->Eclipse Marketplace menu item. If so please go to the next paragraph. If not, we will first need to install the Eclipse marketplace client. It is easy, just go to menu Help->Install new Software... In the dialog, enter "Work with" Helios - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios, wait a moment to Eclipse to download the available software catalog and then search the work "marketplace" as shown in the following figure. Check "Marketplace Client", follow the steps and wait until Eclipse marketplace client is downloaded and installed:
At this point you should have Eclipse marketplace client support in your Eclipse installation. So, we will install subclipse plugin for SVN team support. Goto Help->Eclipse Marketplace, choose "Eclipse marketplace" and press Next
Click on next and search "subclipse" and then click on "install" button:
TODO At last, we must restart Eclipse to apply the changes.
Import Java2Script sources
Now that we have SVN support in our Eclipse, we can check out Java2Script source code. Go to File->Import...->SVN->Checkout projects from SVN.
Select "Create a new Repository location", click in "next" and enter https://java2script.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ [2]. Clicking on next will load all folders of the project Java2Script. Expand folder "sources", and select all its child folders except net.sf.j2s.core and net.sf.j2s.ui:
Click on finnish for start checking out Java2Script project sources.
Because we want to support for Eclipse 3.6 we have to obtain the sources of net.sf.j2s.core and net.sf.j2s.ui from another location: https://java2script.googlecode.com/svn/branches. So we repeat the process for that repository location, selecting net.sf.j2s.core_3.6 and net.sf.j2s.ui_3.6 folders:
After this, the lastest codes are checked out. You shoud see all Java2Script related projects in your Eclipse workspace :
Note: For commiting your changes back to java2script sources you need to be a member of the developer team. Just ask in Java2Script user group. Otherway, if you only want to checkout the sources, you don't need to use https:// just http://.