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If you want to setup an Eclipse development environment with the JFreeReport Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine source code (the latest code on the version 0.8.x track), the following instructions will get you started.

NOTE: While the Eclipse IDE is nice and somewhat easy for development on the Pentaho Reporting Classic Engine, it is by no means required to develop on or against the engine.

Install Eclipse with CVS / SVN Tools

Make sure you have Eclipse setup and installed and you have installed Subclipse (Subversion and CVS tools for Eclipse). If you have not, follow the steps to setup your development environment.

Connect to the

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SVN Repository

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The next step is to connect to the CVS SVN Repository for the JFreeReport Pentaho Reporting project. This repository connection information is:

svn://source.pentaho.org/pentaho-reporting 

is on Source Forge and the JFreeReport project contains CVS connection informationfor the repository.

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• Open the CVS Repositories Window (Window Menu ? Show View ? Other ? CVS SVN ? CVS RepositoriesSVN Repository

• Right click in the CVS Repositories SVN Repository window ? New ? Repository Location...
• Fill in the following fields:

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Field Name	Value
Host	jfreereport.cvs.sourceforge.net
Repository Path	/cvsroot/jfreereport
User	anonymous
Connection Type	pserver
Use Default Port	selected
Validate connection on finish	checked

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NOTE: The above creats an anonymous connection to the CVS repository. This connection is read-only and will not allow changes to be pushed into the repository. If you have developer level access to the repository, this step is slightly different:

Field Name	Values
Host	jfreereport.cvs.sourceforge.net
Repository path	/cvsroot/jfreereport
User	(your user id here)
Password	(your password here)
Connection type	extssh
Use default port	selected
Validate connection on finish	checked
Save password	optionally checked

URL	svn://source.pentaho.org/pentaho-reporting

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• The connection should be established and displayed in the CVS Repository window

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