athen how to start as a developer

Details for developer

ATHEN is an Eclipse 4 RCP application, built with Maven Tycho, some good tutorials can be found here:

Getting started:

First, download an eclipse from (might be outdated):

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?

If possible, select the Eclipse for RCP/RAP developer, otherwise you have to manually install additional plugins. This can be done via Help -> install new software

Most importantly you need:

Eclipse plug-in development environment.
Eclipse e4 Model Tooling

The enxt step should be the download of the repository or alternatively to check it out, using:

git clone https://gitlab2.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/kallimachos/ATHEN.git

If you reuse an existing instance of eclipse it is best practice to create a separate workspace for ATHEN.

In Eclipse, you should import the aggregator project de.uniwue.mk.athen as a Maven project. ATHEN has its own target definition file, located in:

\releng\de.uniwue.mk.athen.target\de.uniwue.mk.athen.target.target

Open this file with the built-in target editor and activate it using the "set as target platform" button. (This should cause a number of downloads) A gentle introduction to target definition files can be found here:

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseTargetPlatform/article.html