Note: if you just want to try out Isis then there's no need to built it first; just use our quickstart maven archetype

Introduction

This is a quick guide explaining the prerequisites for developing. Most of the contributors in the community use Eclipse, but if you use some other IDE (IntelliJ, NetBeans etc) please feel free to update this page.

nb: This stuff should be in docbook (and the starobjects.org umbrella project has some stuff we can take-on, see: http://starobjects.sourceforge.net/m2-site/main/documentation/docbkx/html/developers-guide/developers-guide.html and http://starobjects.sourceforge.net/m2-site/main/documentation/docbkx/pdf/developers-guide.pdf)

Where next?

Once you've got your development environment set up, move on to look at BuildProcess

Java, Subversion, Maven

For now, just a rough list:

Set environment variables:

Checking out the code

Anonymous read-only access:

Committer read-write access:

Eclipse

Plugins (to build the code)

For Contributors

Templates (for all)

Templates (for contributors only)

Code Quality (for contributors only)

NB: these are likely to evolve

Setting up IRC client

We have an IRC chatroom #apache-isis on freenode. You can use any IRC client you want. If you don't habitually use an IRC client, then you might want to try freenode's webchat client which you can run from in your web browser. See IrcWebChat for more info.