Newb: IDE + Maven?

2011-10-03 Thread Albert Law (Logik)
Hi All, I'm a Tika newb but I have some format expertise with RTF, PDF, DOC, PPT, XLS, OOXML, blah blah blah. I want to contribute to Tika. Unfortunately, I'm finding this Maven thing hard to use in conjunction with Eclipse and m2e. I can do everything from command-line, but I want to do it in

Re: Newb: IDE + Maven?

2011-10-03 Thread Nick Burch
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Albert Law (Logik) wrote: Unfortunately, I'm finding this Maven thing hard to use in conjunction with Eclipse and m2e. I can do everything from command-line, but I want to do it in an IDE so I can debug more easily. What I tend to do is build the project with maven on the

Re: Newb: IDE + Maven?

2011-10-03 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > What I tend to do is build the project with maven on the command line, then > unpack the tika-bundle jar. > > Then, I add a regular (non maven) project to eclipse, and add the jars from > the bundle as dependencies by hand. It's fiddly to do

Re: Newb: IDE + Maven?

2011-10-03 Thread Albert Law (Logik)
Hi Jukka, At first, I was hesitating to remove the IT tests. But then I realised that "tika-bundle-it" does almost nothing (i.e. "BundleTest.java" just tests a text and a PDF file). So I've taken your advise and deleted it from my Eclipse workspace. Everything is working fine now. Thanks! p.s

Re: Newb: IDE + Maven?

2011-10-03 Thread Ken Krugler
Hi Albert, For me, running mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse from the top directory results in Eclipse projects that I can import & use for development. -- Ken On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:42am, Albert Law (Logik) wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a Tika newb but I have some format expertise with RTF, PDF, DO