Download and install the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from the following website:http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. Since the KFS software relies heavily on Spring, the recommended IDE is Spring STS (https://spring.io/tools)

After installing, start the Eclipse application. 

The Select a Workspace dialog will appear. Enter your location where you want to store your Eclipse projects and click OK.

Disable automatic building.

You may wish to turn off automatic building of the project as it can consume resources when you need them for other things. Select Project->Build Automatically from the Eclipse menu. Ensure that it is unchecked. Once you have the project completely up and running, you should re-enable this feature.

Install the formatting rules into your project.

Download this eclipse format file: eclipse_format.xml and save it to your local disk.

Right-click on your project in the Project Explorer tab and select Properties.

Click Java Code Style->Formatter, then click the Import button and choose eclipse_format.xml file at the location where you saved it. Click Open.

Click Apply, then OK.

Select the Java 1.8 JRE within Workspace -> Preferenes -> Java -> Installed JREs

Note: Your JDK installation directory may be different than the screenshot:

Also set your compiler JDK compliance to 1.8:

Build GIT repository location

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title Clone GIT Repositories
Create directory in your $$Home directory (like Git_Repo) Image Modified Navigate to the directory, using your terminal window. cd (name of newly created directory, like Git_Repo above) Execute Git clone commands, one at a time. git clone https://netid@stash.uconn.edu/scm/kfs/kfs5.git git clone https://netid@stash.uconn.edu/scm/kfs/rice219embedded.git git clone https://netid@stash.uconn.edu/scm/kfs/dbscripts-test.git git clone https://netid@stash.uconn.edu/scm/kfs/dbscripts.git Image Modified   If you are using KFS with Maven, then you will want to clone the appropriate Kuali KFS repository. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/KualiCo/financials.git  Change to the directory with your financials repository. Switch to the appropriate branch or tag. As of this writing, we will be using the kfs-6.0.0 tag git checkout tags/kfs-6.0.0 Your kfs financials repository should now be pointing to the appropriate code-base used with uconn kfs.

 

Import your projects

Initial build of KFS 5.

KFS 5.x contains the Rice war file. Before the first time you run dist-local (ant target), because you do not have a build/rice-lib directory, the ant script expands the war file and extracts the dependent rice jar files and copies them to build/rice-lib. The ant script also generates the .classpath file that contains the Eclipse build path data. Follow this procedure upon initial creation of the KFS project:

Create your local kfs-build.properties file.

Copy build/external/user/kfs-build.properties from another developer to your $HOME directory.

By default on Windows 7 and higher this is C:/Users/<username> and on Mac OS X it is /Users/<username>

• Edit your $HOME/kfs-build.properties to customize it to match your local settings.

• Create $HOME/Source directory. Obtain a zip file from another developer.
• Run dist-local (see Step 7: Deploy Code to Server) to extract the rice jar files and create the build path.
• Right-click on the project and select Build Project.
• Run dist-local once more.

Create your local log4j.properties file.

Copy build.external/log4j.properties file to your $HOME directory and edit it as necessary.

Open the Server view by clicking on Window->Show View->Other then select Server from the Show View dialog and click OK.

The Servers tab will appear in the bottom window of Eclipse. Right-click and select New->Server.

In the New Server dialog, select Tomcat 7 and click Next.

Browse to the location where you have installed your Tomcat 7 server and then click Finish.

In the Servers tab, double click the Tomcat v7.0 server to open the Server information screen.

Make the following changes to the Server properties:

• Use Tomcat installation (takes control of Tomcat installation)
• Serve modules without publishing
• Never publish automatically
• Set both timeouts to 300 seconds

Click open launch configuration to open the Edit launch configuration properties.

Click on the Arguments tab and add the following arguments to the end of the VM arguments field:

• -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
• -Dorg.apache.el.parser.SKIP_IDENTIFIER_CHECK=true

Click Apply and then OK.

Save and close the Tomcat window.

Click Window->Show View->Ant to open the Ant view.

Right-click in the Ant window and select Add Buildfiles...

Expand your KFS project and select the build.xml file.

In the Ant view, expand the kfs project and double-click the dist-local target.

This will run the ant dist-local target and deploy your code to the Tomcat server. Output messages from ant will display in your Console window. You should see a message similar to the following in your Console window. Of course the path will be the path where you have installed Tomcat locally.

[copy] Copying 1 file to /kuali/servers/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/conf/Catalina/localhost

The KFS application should now be built and deployed to the Tomcat server. 

Refer to this link for instructions on setting up a tunnel to the database:

Database Tunneling

In the Servers tab, highlight the Tomcat 7 server, and click the Run button (the triangle with a green circle around it). The Console will display messages written during startup of the application. 

Now, open your browser and go to the URL http://localhost:8080/kfs-dev.