Eclipse and EGit Setup for Beginners

                  Eclipse and EGit Setup for Beginners

The following tutorial helps the beginners who are new to Eclipse Communication Framework to get started with it(installation, setup, configuration), thus contributing to it and becoming productive team members at the earliest:

1.Ensure that you have the latest version of JDK installed for example, JDK1.8, else please download it from the web site, for example: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

2. Download the latest release of Eclipse from the following web site: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ by clicking on the build link for example, I20140408-1645 (Luna).

3.The following are steps for installing Egit client for accessing the repositories:

a) In Eclipse choose: Help->Install New Software

b) Open the drop down list at the top, and select 'Luna' from Available Sites

c) Wait for the items to show up

d) Then open the 'Collaboration' category

e) And select the 'Eclipse Git Team Provider' (only),then choose Next> button at bottom, agree to the licensing, and Finish the install wizard. Egit will be installed, and then Eclipse will restart. Once restarted, the Git provider will be available, and you can access git repository directly from Eclipse

4.Another way for installing egit is as follows is through a zip file:

a) Download the egit repository in zip form from the following url: http://www.eclipse.org/egit/download/: org.eclipse.egit.repository-3.3.2.201404171909-r

b) Once downloaded, launch Eclipse.

c) Click on Help-Install New Software.

d) Click on Add button. The dialog box opens.

e) Click on Archive button.

f) Select the zip file mentioned in step 4 a.

g) Select Eclipse Git team provider, and Click on the Next button.

h) Complete the install.

i) EGit is installed.

5. The following are steps for adding Eclipse p2/repository web site:

a) Launch Eclipse.

b) Click on Help-Install New Software.

c) Click on Add button.

d) Enter ECF 3.8.0 in name and the following url in location- http://download.eclipse.org/rt/ecf/3.8.0/site.p2

e) Click on OK button.

f) Select the first two check boxes for install into Eclipse,i.e. ECF OSGi Remote Services/Remote Service Admin SDK and the ECF SDK for Eclipse

6. Download the following .zip file org.eclipse.ecf.sdk_3.8.0.v20140309-0741.zip from the following web site: http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/downloads.php (Section 3.8.0 Install via Zip)

a) Unzip the file.

b) The Binary Build of Eclipse, is installed.

References:

1. https://www.eclipse.org

2. https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/

3. https://www.eclipse.org/egit/

4. https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/Git_For_Eclipse_Users

5. https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide

6. https://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF