Building The Plugin

A step by step illustrated guide to checking out TimTam into Eclipse 3.0 , and building a deployable plugin

Pull the source from CVS Into an Eclipse Project

1. Go to the CVS Repositories perspective
2. Add a CVS server entry as follows
   
3. Expand the Head node on the CVS tree, right click on the TimTam node and select Checkout As..
   
4. Select Finish
5. When checkout completes, switch to the Java perspective

Run timtam and make sure it all works fine

1. Select Run\Run...
2. Select the Runtime Workbench node , and click New
3. Go to the Plug-ins tab , and select the Choose plug-ins and fragments to run from the list
4. Click Deselect All
5. Check the tick box next to the org.codehaus.timtam plug-in
6. Click Add Required Plug-ins
   
7. Click Run
8. Verify TimTam works ok.

Making a deployable binary plugin

1. Right click on the TimTam project in the Java perspective and selecet Export...
2. Select Deployable plug-ins and fragments

1. Fill in the Export Plug-ins and Fragments dialog as seen below - you will need to enter a full path and file name in the Destination section

1. Click Finish
2. Once the build is complete, open the zip file and verify you have the correct sturcture (see below)
   

If all went well, you have a binary plugin that can be unzipped into the eclipse directory of an eclipse install. Congratulations