Setting up InterMine projects in Eclipse

The InterMine checkout includes configuration to open the various code modules as Eclipse projects. This document explains how to set up your new checkout in Eclipse.

For checkout and installation details see: SVNCheckout, MacInstallation

Starting up Eclipse

Open Eclipse, if it is the first time you have used it click on the arrow icon to bring up the work environment:

To import the InterMine projects:

1. Select 'File' -> 'Import'.
2. From the dialog select 'General' then 'Existing Projects into Workspace' and click Next.
3. Choose svn/release_xx_branch (or whatever the root directory of your InterMine checkout is) as the root directory to import from.
4. A long list of projects will appear, leave them all selected and click Finish.
5. The workspace will take some time to build. If you are running eclipse on a new checkout of InterMine there initially be some errors. This is because some packages depend on code that is auto-generated from model XML files. To fix this you need to run some ant targets at the command line and refresh. You only need to do this the first time you set up Eclipse.
   1. Run ant with no arguments in the following directories:

      intermine/objectstore/model/testmodel
      intermine/integrate/model/fulldata
      intermine/api/test
      intermine/pathquery/main
      intermine/api/model/userprofile
      bio/test-all/dbmodel
      

      For the final directory you will first need to set up a properties file for the bio tests - see instructions running the bio tests and may need to run ant clean build-db if prompted to do so.
   2. Now select all projects in the Project Explorer and Refresh. There should no longer be any errors.