Magnolia 5.5 reached end of life on November 15, 2019. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
The Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment) provides a platform for developing Java applications. You can also use other Java IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA.
To run Eclipse your machine requires Java. Both JRE (Java Runtime Environment) and JDK (Java Development Kit) are capable to run Eclipse. But since you anyway will require a JDK in its proper version to develop a Magnolia project, we recommend to make sure to have your JDK before installing Eclipse. (See Java Development Kit.)
The following step-by-step procedure assumes that you are working on a WINDOWS machine. Nevertheless, the installation procedure on Linux or OS-X is very similar.
C:\Program Files\Eclipse
.Eclipse offers many plugins to make your life easier. Depending on the version you are installing, Eclispe is already bundled with more or less plugins.
To check out Magnolia source code from our git repository you should install the Egit plugin. See the instructions on our wiki.
If you are using an older version of Eclipse, you may require the following:
If either of the following errors occur, you need to modify eclipse.ini
in the Eclipse directory.
"A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations."
"The Maven Integration requires that Eclipse be running in a JDK, because a number of Maven core plugins are using JARs from the JDK."
To modify eclipse.ini:
eclipse.ini
in a text editor.JDKlocation
is the location of javaw.exe
in the JDK: -vm JDKlocation