Basic Development Environment Setup

Each team is free to use the development environment that suits them and they are comfortable with. However, all labs will always be guaranteed to work on the machines in Olin using the jEdit editor. For use on personal machines see installation instructions at the bottom of this document.

Getting Started

  1. Launch jEdit
  2. If necessary, go plugins manager (Plugins->PluginManager)
  3. If necessary, install the AntFarm and XMLPlugin plugins (This may install other dependecies, that's fine.)
  4. Launch the AntFarm plugin (Plugins->AntFarm)
  5. This will open a window labeled "Ant Farm"
  6. Click on the "+" to add a new build file. Select "build.xml" in the lab folder.

Building

  1. Select the Ant Farm window
  2. Click on the triangle to the left of the build file to see the various targets
  3. Select the "compile" task
  4. Click on the icon of the running person to compile all code

Running

  1. Select the Ant Farm window
  2. Click on the triangle to the left of the build file to see the various targets
  3. Select the "run" task
  4. Click on the icon of the running person to compile all code

jEdit Installation

  1. Download and install jEdit from jedit.org. Use the "Stable" version not "Latest". (
  2. Launch jEdit
  3. Open the Plugin Manager (Plugins->PluginManager...)
  4. Install the XMLPlugin and AntFarm plugins (these plugins may have extra dependencies, that's fine.)
Last modified: Fri Sep 1 14:12:44 EDT 2006