OLE Development Process

This page describes the development process from a developer's standpoint when working on OLE from within an IDE.

Summary Process

Check out the ole project from SVN. See: OLE Subversion Projects and Branches
Per OLE Build Process, copy the build/external/home/ole-build.properties to your user home directory.
- Customize this file as needed for your own environment. See OLE Configuration Properties for more information on the properties which can be used in this file.
Run the dist-local Ant target of the ole project.
- This will build certain configuration files and copy them into external configuration directories as well as into the master source directory. (ole/work/src)
Within Eclipse, refresh the project. (Select the project in the Project Explorer view and press F5 or right-click and select Refresh from the popup menu.)
- This ensures that Eclipse notices the updated files from dist-local and copies them to the work/web-root/WEB-INF/classes directory where they need to be for running the local version of the application.

`work/src`	The main source tree for the application.
`work/web-root`	The root for the web application context used when starting up the application on a developer's workstation.
`build`	Files related to the build process and additional libraries.
`build/rice-lib`	Library files extracted from the Rice project. This directory is populated automatically from the Rice WAR file and should not be modified directly.