Eclipse
Last updated for Eclipse Kepler
We use Eclipse to develop BIMserver. Other IDE's should work as well, but this page describes how to get started with Eclipse.
It's best to download the "Eclipse Modeling Tools" package, but if you are not going to change the EMF model, you can also just download the "Standard" package, or use your own existing installation.
All BIMserver project are on GitHub. Eclipse should have a Git client already.
- Copy the BIMserver GitHub URL to your clipboard (https://github.com/opensourceBIM/BIMserver.git)
- Open the GIT perspective in Eclipse
- Right click in the "Git Repositories" view and select "Paste Repository Path or URI", or just press ctrl-v
- Fill in your GitHub credentials if you have them.
- Next
- Finish (Select the "Import all existing projects after clone finishes" checkbox)
- Switch back to the Java perspective
To run the BIMserver from eclipse, right click the BimServer project, select "Run As" and then "Java Application", eclipse will look for classes with main methods, you have to select "LocalDevBimServerStarter", which is in the package "org.bimserver".
All of the API's are provider at localhost:8080, as well as a basic user interface. The admin interface is available at localhost:8080/admin.
You now have a working Eclipse environment, we look forward to your pull requests!