Develop in IDEA

Eclipse RCP launcher generator for IDEA

Instructions

• Clone repositories
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver-common
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-workspace-dbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-workspace-cloudbeaver
  • https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-rcp-launch-config-generator
• Download and unpack Eclipse IDE from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/ (we recommend to use Eclipse for RCP and RAP developers package)
• Launch Eclipse IDE and install all dependencies (use Help->Install new software):
  • https://p2.dev.dbeaver.com/eclipse-repo (DBeaver and CloudBeaver 3rd party deps)
• Launch IDEA
• Set variable ECLIPSE_PATH to the location where Eclipse IDE is installed (Settings->Appearance and Behavior->Path variables).
• Open IDEA project (e.g. idea-workspace-cloudbeaver)
• Build project (CTRL+F9)
• Execute run configuration Generate CB CE dev props (it will generate RCP config files)
• Execute run configuration Run CB CE (it will launch CloudBeaver CE)

Now you can debug code in IDEA, modify Java classes on fly, etc.

Notes

• https://github.com/dbeaver/idea-rcp-launch-config-generator - RCP generator source code