iDempiere setup under use of Eclipse Juno 4.2 on Windows 7

This tutorial describes how to set up the iDempiere project with Eclipse IEE 4.2 on a Windows 7 machine from scratch.

JAVA DOWNLOAD
Please make sure that you have installed Java JDK 1.6.0_35Update on your computer
and that you can find the jvm.dl file under this path:
Programme Files (x86) > Java > jdk1.6.0_22>bin>client>jvm.dll

If you cannot find it, please look up the following path:
Programme Files (x86) > Java >jdk1.6.0_22>jre>bin>client>jvm.dll

and copy it to the path before. This file is needed for the installation of Eclipse

ECLIPSE DOWNLOAD

Now you can download under Eclipse Downloads the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers.
And open Eclipse after being installed.

PLUGIN INSTALLATION IN ECLIPSE

For setting up iDempiere you need the following plugins

• buckminster core
• buckminster maven
• buckminster pde

Go to Help > Install New Software and enter the following Link:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/updates-4.2

then select Buckminster and Buckminster Source  –> Next

Next–> Click Next (Install Details Window) –> Next(Review Lizenses Window) –> I accept –> Next —> Finish

Now this timeline appears:

Then restart your Eclipse.

If Buckminster has been installed successfully, you Eclipse will look something like this:

INTEGRATING THE IDEMPIERE PROJECT VIA MECURIAL
Now download the source code  here:  http://bitbucket.org/idempiere/idempiere

via Mercurial, but please do NOT use the Mecurial plugin and clone the project, because problems may occur.

How to clone without plugin:

If you did’t use Mecurial before please download it: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

The Tool is called TortoiseHg 2.5.1 and includes Mecurial 2.3.2

Open a TortoiseHg workbench with a right click on the desktop –> hg Workbench

Then create an idempiere folder in your workspace folder

Open a terminal Window and go via cd to your Eclipse workspace\idempiere and type in

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/idempiere/idempiere –> Enter

now the repository will be downloaded in the idempiere directory under your workspace

This will take some minutes!
Here the window after successful download:

CREATING A TARGET PLATFORM

Now go back to Eclipse and click on File –> Switch Workspace –> Others and Browse for the idempiere directory in your workspace

Eclipse will restart.

Now go into the idempiere folder and create an empty “targetPlatform” folder there.

After that go to Eclipse: Window -> References -> Plug-in Development -> Target Platform
and click on Add and follow the next steps:

click on Add…

and type in iDempiere Target Platform

Click on Add…

click on Directory –> Next and Browse for the targetplatform folder and click on Finish

Do the following settings in the Environment  and click Finish

Close Target Platform Window with OK.

Now ight click on the Project Explorer and select Import

Click on Buckminster ->Materialize…. -> Next

Now browse for:

C:\Users\<your name>\workspace\idempiere\org.adempiere.sdk-feature\adempiere.cquery

The process starts automaticaly

after that, click Finish and the p2 materializer process will start.

That takes a while!

After that the installing process will start automaticaly and will fill the Project Explorer with folders. Than Buckminster will build a workspace and in the end your eclipse