Eclipse

Eclipse is a complete IDE for software development.

• Eclipse for developers
• Import DHIS 2 projects into Eclipse (for developers)
• Resources
• Tutorials
• Books

Eclipse for developers

Download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads

See also:

• Eclipse configuration (recommended)
  http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~knutst/eduwiki/doku.php?id=5750:configuring_eclipse
• Useful Eclipse plugins (some are recommended)
• Eclipse tips and tricks

Import DHIS 2 projects into Eclipse (for developers)

• Go to scm/trunk/dhis-2 and type 'mvn clean install eclipse:eclipse -Dtest=skip'. (Building is required for the following step to work. Tests are skipped to save time.)
• Go to scm/trunk/dhis-2/dhis-web and type 'mvn clean eclipse:eclipse'.
• Start Eclipse and select Import -> General -> Existing projects into workspace.
• Set scm/trunk/dhis-2 as the root directory and you will get all the projects.

Resources

• The eclipse homepage

Tutorials

• Installation notes and tutorials
• Getting started with Eclipse and the SWT
• http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2004/cmsc131/EclipseTutorial/
• http://www.jspolympus.com/Eclipse/Eclipse.jsp

Books

O'Reilly

• Eclipse by Steve Holzner
• Eclipse Cookbook by Steve Holzner

Other

• 4 chapters of Eclipse plug-in book