XEclipse 2.0-Milestone-1 Installation Instructions

XEclipse 2.0 is a version of XEclipse using REST. It's compatible with multi-wiki and has some new features:

- some better syntax coloring, including syntax 2.0, velocity and groovy
- code folding and indentation for velocity
- some bug fixes since the previous 2.0 builds

Install standalone XEclipse

Unzip the downloaded archive and launch XEclipse.

Install on Eclipse JUNO

To install on Eclipse JUNO, it's very simple. Just copy the following 3 jars org.xwiki.eclipse.core-2.0.0.milestone1.jar, org.xwiki.eclipse.storage-2.0.0.milestone1.jar and org.xwiki.eclipse.ui-2.0.0.milestone1.jar to the eclipse/dropins directory and restart your Eclipse.

Usage

Once you have started Eclipse, you need to use the File/New/Other menu and then select XWiki Eclipse/New Connection to setup a new connection. Once you have a connection it will show up in the XWiki Eclipse Navigator Window. If you don't see the XWiki Eclipse Navigator you can use Window/Show View/Other and then select it to show it.

Known issues

- object editing has a bug (which seems to be in the rest api)
- there is an exception when you have no server configured (you need to restart after setting up the first server)
- the same exception sometimes happen on restart
- not compatible with htpasswd (you need to ask the platform team to open access to the rest api for XEclipse -> they know how to do it)

Reporting bugs

Please report any bugs on jira: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XECLIPSE