Another tip I have is to create one source repo and workspace for one major branch. We've been changing our environment a lot and it really messes with the whole git checkout <branch> and then have eclipse reconfigure automatically. It has the added benefit of working on multiple branches at the same time simply by opening multiple eclipses.
Just don't create workspaces in the directory you store your source. This used to be okay for me back in the ant days but since the switch to maven, eclipse has had really weird problems with that. Once I stored the workspace outside of the source directory, everything works beautifully. --Alex > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 4:55 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Setting up a better eclipse environment.... > > Hi All, > > I've heard this from a couple of developers on eclipse and cloudstack. > Thought I share this tip. > > When you open hit Shift-Ctrl-R on eclipse, it opens up the Open Resource > dialogue. A lot of people do this as a quick way to get to a file. With > CloudStack, many people see a bunch of .class files and three or four > different .java files of the same name. > > Here's how to get rid of all of that. > > > 1. Quit Eclipse > > 2. Make sure your workspace is not stored in the cloudstack directory. > (This may be only my problem because I used to like to do that.) If your > workspace is stored in the directory, you want to delete all eclipse metadata > and create the workspace somewhere else. > > 3. Remove the eclipse generated bin directory from all of the > directories. > The reason is because CloudStack projects used to use bin as the directory > for all the eclipse generated .class files but now with maven based projects, > eclipse uses target/classes to store them. So now eclipse sees the .class > files > in the bin directories as resources that you own. That's why there's .class > files in the Open Resource directory. > > 4. Remove all of the .project files. This is again because we used to > checkin .project files and some of your .project files were not created from > maven pom.xml. If you did this before, then you can skip steps 5-8. > > 5. Start Eclipse. > > 6. If you deleted your workspace in step 2, then you should create a new > workspace. > > 7. Remove all of the projects. > > 8. Import all maven projects again. > > 9. Hit Shift-Ctrl-R to open resource dialogue > > 10. Click on the down arrow in the upper right of the dialogue box > > 11. Click on the Edit Active Working Set from the drop down menu > > 12. Create a working set called cloudstack > > 13. Add all of the projects to it and then remove the parent projects. The > reason you want to remove them is because they're parent projects and > when you open resource, the open resource dialogue gets the .java file from > both the actual project and the parent projects so the same .java file appears > more than once. > > o Cloudstack-framework > > o Cloud-engine > > o Cloudstack > > o Cloudstack-plugins > > o Cloud-services > > 14. Click on finish > > 15. Click on the top right drop down button again > > 16. Make sure "Show derived resources" is not checked > > Another easier way to do this may be to push all your commits and changes > and then delete the source directory and reclone the repo. Then follow just > steps 6-16. > > After doing that, when you hit Ctrl-Shift-R, make sure the CloudStack > working set is selected. Now only the java file you want will show up. > There's no .class files and no multiple copies of the same java files. > > --Alex
