Checking out CFEclipse

In order to check out CFEclipse from Subversion, you will need to first establish a Trac login: Go to  http://trac.cfeclipse.org and click Register. Choose a username and password; this will allow you to submit and modify issues. It will also be your username and password for access to Subversion.

In order to check out CFEclipse using Eclipse, you'll first need to install a Subversion plugin. The two most active plugins for Subversion are Subversive and Subclipse.

Subversive has recently been accepted as an official Eclipse technology project and can be found here:

 http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/

Subclipse can be found here:

 http://subclipse.tigris.org/

You should select the 1.4.x version of Subclipse, as the 1.6.x version is not compatible with the CFEclipse SVN repository.

After installing either Subversive or Subclipse and restarting Eclipse, go to Window, Open Perspective and open the SVN Repository Exploring perspective. Right-click in the SVN Repositories view at the top left and choose New, Repository Location. The URL to use is  http://svn.cfeclipse.org. Use your Trac login information in the Authentication section and click Finish. Once you have successfully added this repository location, you can expand the tree structure in the SVN Repositories view. You will note that there are several projects listed. The project named org.cfeclipse.cfml is the main CFEclipse distribution. Expand this node and right-click on trunk. Select Find/Check Out As... Eclipse will then offer you the option of setting a project name (the default is org.cfeclipse.cfml). Leave 'Checkout recursively' checked and click Next. Select the project location and click Finish. Eclipse will check out the CFEclipse plugin project.

Updating from Subversion is as simple as right-clicking on the project and choosing Team, Update. If you make modifications, it is also quite simple to make a patch to submit back to the project. Just right-click on the modified project in your workspace and choosing Team, Create Patch. This will create a file that can be sent to the CFEclipse team for evaluation.

Team Project Set If you wish to check out the entire CFEclipse suite, you can import (Import>Team>Team Project Set) all the related projects in one fell swoop using the attached Team Project Set. It's advisable to add them to an Eclipse Working Set.

Building CFEclipse

Please see Building CFEclipse