Building and Debugging Pentaho 2.0 with Eclipse

This document explains how to set up a development environment in Eclipse, including how to make a connection to the Pentaho Subversion repository, check out the Pentaho projects, build them, and debug them using a standalone Java application server and the Eclipse IDE. This document also describes the Pentaho repository structure and a number of build targets important to developing with Pentaho.

Assumptions

You are expected to have a fair amount of knowledge of the Eclipse platform and the Java programming language. If you intend to deploy the platform as a J2EE application, you will also need some experience with J2EE and application servers in general (though this guide only covers Tomcat). Apache Ant knowledge is a plus, but not required to complete these instructions.

If following these instructions fails to result in a working development environment, ask for help on the Pentaho forum. If you discover any errors or omissions in this guide, please email them to jmatzan@pentaho.com.

Coding standards and expectations

If you are new to the BI Platform, please take a moment to review the Pentaho coding standards guidelines before continuing.