Help is available by sending an email to csf-support@mit.edu
Have any suggestion on how improve this wiki?  Please give us your feedback at csf-support@mit.edu

If you need help setting up Eclipse, SVN, OC4J, Maven, ES Projects etc., then you're found the right place.

About this TAB

The topics presented in this TAB are primarily designed for the software developer who:

  1. is a new hire and needs to configure his/her workstation, or
  2. has a new workstation and needs to get it configured, or
  3. has a need for a Maven WAR or JAR artifact which is not related to an on going ES project (e.g. A Proof of Concept project), or
  4. has a need to add a new artifact (WAR or JAR) to an existing ES project.

Quick Links to:

Education Systems developer VMs

  1. Education Systems developer VMs
  2. Request a ES developer VM
  3. Connecting to a ES developer VM
  4. Configure a ES developer VM

Workstation configuration

  1. General
  2. Eclipse Indigo - Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
  3. Eclipse MyEclipse

Education Systems Maven projects

An Education Systems (ES) project will typically consist of 2 Maven artifacts. These Maven artifacts are:

  1. Only one Maven WAR artifact which contains all the WEB facing (i.e. jsp's, controllers, css, js, ...) components of the ES project.
  2. At least one Maven JAR artifact which contains all the support (i.e. services, daos, hibernate mapping, ...) components of the ES project.

The following are the instructions on how the create and configure an ES Maven WAR or Maven JAR project.

  1. Selecting names for your project
  2. How to create an ES Maven JAR project using the JAR template
  3. How to customize the ES Maven JAR project pom.xml
  4. How to create an ES Maven WAR project using the WAR template
  5. How to customize the ES Maven WAR project pom.xml

The following are instructions on how to writing unit tests

  1. Using the unit test base class

Available for downloading

  1. MAC plugin for managing Environmental Variables
  2. project.properties (right click on this link then select Save target as....  Navigate to your ${user.dir}/<projectName> directory and click Save)
  3. settings.xml (right click on this link then select Save target as....  Navigate to your ${user.home}/.m2 directory and click Save)
    This link contains instructions on how to configure the settings.xml file.
  4. Other keystore downloads