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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
  <tomcat-users> 
    <role rolename="manager"/> 
    <user username="activiti" password="activiti" roles="manager"/> 
  </tomcat-users>

Eclipse IDE Setup

You'll need to install the Maven and Subversion (SVN) plugins.

In the "Galileo - [http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo|http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo]" update site, which should be available automatically, install "Collaboration --> Subversibe SVN Team provider". After rebooting and adding an SVN repository, you'll be asked automatically to install one of the polarion connectors for SVN. Just take the latest version of the polarion connectors. In case that doesn't happen automatically install a polarion connector manually from "Subversive SVN Connectors Site [http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/|http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/]"

Install the Maven plugins from [http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e|http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e]

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In order to have BPMN code completion and validation, import BPMN's XML Schemas from activiti-engine/src/main/resources/org/activiti/impl/bpmn/parser into the Eclipse XML Catalog, which can be found in Preferences --> XML --> XMLCatalog.

Coding style

• In the eclipse directory of the root activiti source directory are some files that should be imported as eclipse preferences. The filenames indicate the dialog that can be used to import them.  Those eclipse files indicate the general coding style guidelines.** indents are 2 spaces (no tabs)** sun style braces formatting
• By default, our member field access should be set to protected

Commits

As much as possible try to group all related changes into single commits. 

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ACT-826 Fixed all problems in the world

Running the test suite using Spring configuration

Use

mvn -Pcheckspring clean install

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mvn -Pcheck,checkspring clean install

to combine running the engine testsuite on an Activiti config as well as on a Spring config

If you run the checkspring profile, the spring module will copy the engine tests over to the spring module before compiling and running the tests.  Those tests are deleted in the 'package' build phase

If you need to debug spring configuration test cases, just execute a 

mvn -Pcheckspring clean test

in the activiti-spring module, then refresh your IDE and the classes and spring configuration will be in your activiti-spring project ready to be debugged.

Checkin when test is failing

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More about the QA and CI infrastructure can be found here: QA and CI Guide

Demo setup

To run smoke tests on webapps, the quickest way to get started is using the target test.demo.setup in qa/build.xml
That will also startup h2 and tomcat. So to rebuild, you can use the target test.demo.setup.refresh That target will first shutdown tomcat and h2 and then do a full new demo test setup.
Building the javadocs

Use target build.javadocs in qa/build.xml

Debugging ant task

http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2009/07/10/debugging-ant-tasks-in-eclipse/

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See How to build Activiti Modeler from Signavio

GIT pointers

We decided not to use GIT for now.  These pointers are here for future reference when we would evaluate GIT again.

Currently there is a GIT repository fork from SVN, for experimental purposes. If you prefer to use GIT let Tom know and we can take that into account when deciding whether to stick with it.

To use GIT as a committer you will probably want to use ssh to authenticate automatically. Codehaus requires DSA tokens (not RSA) so you may need to create those first:

$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
... <accept the defaults>

Ensure that your ~/.ssh directory is only readable by you (chmod 700 ~/.ssh should do it). You will also probably need a ~/.ssh/config that contains these lines:

Host git.codehaus.org
	User git
	Hostname git.codehaus.org
	PreferredAuthentications publickey
	IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa

Typical initial setup:

$ git config --global user.name "My Name"
$ git config --global user.email my.email@my.address.com
$ git config --global core.autocrlf input
# All the --global above can be set locally if you prefer
$ git clone ssh://git@git.codehaus.org/activiti-git.git activiti
$ cd activiti
$ git branch -a
... (list of branches)

There are plenty of online resources for git. A good one is [Pro Git|http://progit.org/book]. IntelliJ has good IDE support. Eclipse has some very active development in [EGit|http://www.eclipse.org/egit/], but only basic features currently (things are moving very fast). Most people find gitkor gitx (Mac only) very useful for visualization (launch with --all for best results).

As a rule with GIT you do not make changes directly to remote branches, but rather you create your own local branch and merge changes from there to the remote branch (via a local mirror).  Typical workflow

# create a new local branch to work from
$ git checkout -b feature/my-new-idea

# edit source code...
$ git status
... (list of changes)

# add all your changes to local index (N.B. -A might not always be appropriate)
$ git add -A .

# commit locally
$ git commit -m "My nice changes"

Keep doing that until you are happy. If you want to tidy up your commits and send them as a batch instead of individual changes look at git rebase -i .... Now you are ready to share your work. If you want to stay on a branch and collaborate with someone, push up your branch

# if it is new:
$ git push origin feature/my-new-idea

# if you already shared it
$ git push

To checkout someone else's remote branch for collaboration:

# Make sure you have all the remote changes
$ git fetch

# Or just make sure the branch is there
$ git branch -a
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# Checkout the branch
$ git checkout origin/feature/my-new-idea

When you are ready to merge with the remote master (dev trunk):

# get changes from remote repository
$ git fetch

# merge changes onto master (= dev trunk for everyone else)
$ git checkout master
$ git merge origin/master

# merge master onto your features (assuming you are ready to try and push it
# up to the remote repository)
$ git merge feature/my-new-idea

# push changes up to remote repository and move back to local branch to
# continue work
$ git push
$ git checkout feature/my-new-feature

# optionally rebase to keep history clean
$ git rebase master

There are many combinations of commands that achieve the same end result as that last sequence. Your preferred workflow might be different, and of course any time there are conflicts it will have to change (GIT is quite good at telling you what it thinks is wrong in a conflict).