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Thu, 04/03/2008 - 3:13pm — mikeryan

Now trying Eclipse as my Drupal development environment... Starting with Rob Loach's approach:

  1. Download and install the latest Eclipse Classic (3.3.2 at this writing).
  2. Next, goto Help->Software Tools->Find and Install..., check off the Europa Discovery Site, then open up Web and J2EE Development and install Web Standard Tools (required by PDT). Be sure to click Select Required to pick up other necessary stuff (XSD components at this writing).
  3. Next, PDT and JSEclipse (using the attached DrupalEclipse.xml, based on Rob's).
  4. Follow the configuration instructions at http://drupal.org/node/75242.
  5. Other preferences I'm using, which may be of general interest:
    1. General->Appearance->Label Decorations - enable CVS.
    2. General->Workspace, make sure Build automatically is off.
    3. JSEclipse, turn on Replace tabs with spaces.