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This page describes how to develop AIDA using the Eclipse environment.

Development on Solaris

• Choose your Eclipse workspace, the development directory. This should include the OS and WM since those may vary. The cvs checkout will create the tail of the dir name "aida" so it's best to omit that. Eg ~greg/dev/eclipse/sun4x_58/motif/
  
• eclipse [if aliased to /afs/slac/package/eclipse/@sys/3.0/motif/eclipse/eclipse], giving the workspace directory.
  

CVS Checkout and build

• In eclipse, File->New->CVS project
• The module is "package/aida"
• Check out as a java project
• Add libraries from the CLASSPATH
• /afs/slac/package/iona/orbacus/Prod/common/OOC/lib/OB.jar
• /afs/slac/package/iona/orbacus/Prod/common/OOC/lib/OBEvent.jar
• /afs/slac/package/iona/orbacus/Prod/common/OOC/lib/OBUtil.jar
• /afs/slac/g/cd/soft/ref/package/err/lib/err.jar
• /afs/slac/g/cd/soft/ref/package/except/lib/except.jar
• /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/oracle/b/sun4/9.0.1/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip
• In project properties, add dpCa and dpSlc to the "Excluded" list. This is because dpCa uses jca, for which we have no jar file, and dpSlc uses exceptions from aida rather than except.jar.
• Once Eclipse has checked everything out, build Aida from the solaris command line using aidamake. This is necessary because Eclipse doesn't know how to derive the CORBA class from idl. When aidamake has completed, refresh the eclipse project.
• source $CD_SOFT/dev/script/aidaSetEnvDev.csh DEV {ROOT_OF_YOUR_AIDA_ECLIPSE_PROJECT}
• aidamake all
  

To Run Aida in Eclipse on Solaris

• To run an aida server. Highlight the source of the server to start, eg da/DaServer.java. On the Run dialog, add ${AIDABCSTRING} -DAIDA_DATABASE_USERID=AIDA${AIDA_MODE} -DAIDA_NAMESERVER_IOR_URL=${AIDA_NAMESERVER_IOR_URL} to the VM Arguments (not the program arguments).
  

Author: Greg White, 27-Sep-2004.
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