How to setup development environment

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Hello All!

I’m new to Bonita BPM Open Source and I’ve started to explore the source code to better understand the software architecture.
I’ve followed the steps in http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/building-bonita-bpm-source-files to build Bonita from source code.

Although, I was not able to setup the development environment in Eclipse to explore the code and make changes to it. At this moment, I’m specially interested in bonita-engine and bonita-web.

Could someone help me in setting up the development environment for Bonita 6 in Eclipse?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Leandro.

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Hi,
bonita-engine and bonita-web are maven project so you can import them as maven project inside eclipse:

  • File > import… > existing maven project
  • Select the root folder of the repository (bonita-engine or bonita-web)
  • Select all modules you want to modify

BR,
Baptiste Mesta.

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Thank you Baptiste!

One more question: I’d like to build an app that uses Bonita API. How can I do this and test the site in my developer machine?

Thanks!

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I advise you to take a look here http://community.bonitasoft.com/answers/how-setup-development-environment
It contains more informations on how to developpe a maven application that use bonita API