Fast and Furious

Introduction

The developer environment can be set in any Operating System (Windows, Linux, etc..) since LogicalDOC is a multi-platform system, but we recommend Windows, since it is the development environment of reference.
As a result, most of the examples will show paths and screenshots of Windows.

Requirements

You need Tortoise SVN client (TortoiseSVN 1.8.10), Java JDK 1.7, Maven 3.2.5, Maven Ant Tasks 2.1.3, Ant 1.7.1, Eclipse Luna 4.4.1, Tomcat 7.0.57

Prepare the Workspace

Create the folder workspace71 as sub folder of your Home Directory.
In my case, since the home directory of my user is: C:\Users\george ,I have to create the folder path C:\Users\george\workspace71

Checkout a working copy of LogicalDOC CE

Checkout the following packages from the SVN repository of LogicalDOC CE on SourceForge:
ant, poms, logicaldoc

Checkout the LD's ant package using TortoiseSVN
Note: when you install TortoiseSVN on your Windows system it will add two new items to the contextual menu: SVN Checkout... and TortoiseSVN; you can activate the contextual menu simply using the right mouse click on a folder.

This are the SVN paths for source and target
svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/logicaldoc/code/build/ant/trunk
C:\Users\george\workspace71\ant

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  SVN Checkout contextual menu (mouse right click)

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  Checkout the LD's ant package

Repeat the steps above for the other two packages below

svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/logicaldoc/code/build/poms/trunk
C:\Users\george\workspace71\poms

svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/logicaldoc/code/community/logicaldoc/trunk
C:\Users\george\workspace71\logicaldoc

Install the parent dependencies

At this point you need to install the dependencies shared by the various LogicalDOC's modules.
To do this, open a command shell, move to the folder poms and run the command:

 mvn clean install

Note: this process involves downloading several libraries from the Internet and may take a few tens of minutes to complete (depending on the speed of your internet connection).

Prepare the project for Eclipse

We're going to generate a project for Eclipse using the Maven's plugin with the same name.
By launching this command Maven will download all the dependencies (jar libraries) of the project and will produce a project file for Eclipse with all the libraries already linked (ready for compilation).

 cd ..\logicaldoc
 mvn eclipse:eclipse

Note: even this command launches the download of several libraries from the internet

Load the project in Eclipse

Start Eclipse by specifying the workspace path C:\Users\george\workspace71

Import the project logicaldoc

Import the project logicaldoc and all its children projects.

The images below describe in sequence the steps required to import the project logicaldoc and all its sub-projects that make it up.

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1. Starting the import procedure
2. Selecting the type of project
3. Selecting the project root directory
4. Selecting the project root directory 02
5. Projects children of the root folder are marked to be imported
6. The projects have been imported into the workspace

Building the sources

After importing the projects, you can launch the build of sources from Eclipse.
All this is already ready to use, there is nothing to do, the libraries needed for compilation have already been downloaded previously from Maven and linked to the Eclipse project from the command mvn that we previously launched in step Prepare the project for Eclipse

Compiling the web interface

Although it is possible to build the sources that is not enough to render the web interface of LogicalDOC (GUI) from inside Eclipse.
This is because the LogicalDOC's web interface is based on the Google GWT framework.

So we need to perform some operations on the project logicaldoc-gui.
But before doing this we need to install the Google plugins for Eclipse.

After installing the Google's plugins we will specify a nature for the project logicaldoc-gui which contains the code to render the Web GUI of LogicalDOC.

The gallery below shows the various steps of the configuration.

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1. Activate the contextual menu on the project logicaldoc-gui and select Google -> Web Toolkit Settings...
2. Select the checkbox Use Google Web Toolkit
3. GWT libraries are added to the project
4. Launch the compilation by selecting from Google's menu GWT Compile project
5. We choose to compile only the frontend module
6. Compilation output
7. The product of the compilation is stored in the subfolder war/frontend