Development Environment Setup

Last modified 28 Oct 2021 11:18 +02:00

Requirements

You will need:

Java Development Kit (JDK) 7
Maven 3
Tomcat 6 or 7
IDE

Installation (Linux)

Java

Install JDK with command[source]

sudo apt-get install sun-java7-jdk

Check environment variable JAVA_HOME (should be path to JDK, e.g. /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-sun)[source]

echo $JAVA_HOME

Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files 7

The development environment and midPoint in runtime also requires JCE for cryptographic operations. You can download it from Oracle downloads page. After downloading zip file follow installation instructions written in README.txt

Maven

Install Maven 3 from repository[source]

sudo apt-get install maven3

Check environment variable M2_HOME (should be path to Maven directory, e.g. /usr/share/maven3)[source]

echo $M2_HOME

Tomcat

Download binary distribution of Apache Tomcat 6.x or 7.x from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
Unpack it into folder where you want to have your tomcat installation, e.g. /opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.32

IDE (Eclipse, Idea)

How to start with IntelliJ IDEA
How to start with Eclipse
NetBeans should work as well, but we haven’t tried to use it for years (since Oracle happened). If you have any information about midPoint in NetBeans please let us know.