Using Designer trunk

[walterjs]

How can I build the designer plugin so that I can use the features in trunk? Or is there maybe a nightly build or something similar that I can use as my update location?

Thanks
Walter

[tiesebarrell]

Walter,

there's no nightly build yet. For development, the easiest way is to checkout the modules to top-level projects from trunk into an Eclipse RCP installation. You can then run the plugin by right-clicking the .eclipse project and selecting Run as > Eclipse application.

That way, you can pull in updates from subversion and run your extensions against it.

To create installable update sites, the easiest way is to run mvn targets on the parent module project. That will create a local update site in the .updatesite project's target directory.

[htejwani]

Tijs:

I am very new to Activiti and its sub projects, but ramping up. This could be of great use for us.

Did you have any time to create a wiki on how to use designer sources, as mentioned previously?  Tom's Dev wiki is not very clear for designer developers.

Thanks for response

Harish

[tiesebarrell]

htejwani,

sure we could do that, but a couple of things before we get started on that:
* Could you please create a JIRA issue for this? That will help us remember and schedule it for a release
* In the issue, could you describe what kind of information you are looking for? Developing Eclipse plugins is a rather vast subject, so having an idea of the starting knowledge of the target audience will help us to figure out what needs to be in it and what can be assumed as prerequisite knowledge

[htejwani]

Thanks for quick reply. I am an plugin developer, so not expecting anything on that front

What would help is something of this level for Designer: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Developers+Guide

warm regards

Harish

[tiesebarrell]

OK, clear on that. We could definitely add to that page. Can you create an issue for us?

[htejwani]

Here you go - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-549

I have put it as MINOR though I would like to call it MAJOR for me Hope to see the wiki available soon!!!

[tiesebarrell]

Thanks, much appreciated. It'll probably go up for the March 1st release.

[tiesebarrell]

I have added a wiki page describing working with the Activiti Designer sources: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Activiti+Designer+Developer+Guide