Minuteproject as a workspace

HOW-TO EXTEND MINUTEPROJECT

If you want to create your own generation based on the database, this article will guide you step by step. Here are the main elements to create a workspace in order to extends minuteproject with your own templates, libraries, and plug-in.

Minuteproject as a workspace

• unzip MP into
  
• create an eclipse java project on /mywork
• add the libraries
• In eclipse go:  Project>Properties>Java build Path under Libraries tab and add the jar from /application/lib and the jdbc driver under
  /application/lib/extra
•  add sources 
• by default eclipse create a source (src) directory. You can keep it if you want to write your own plugin for your template
• add the template metadata folder in Project>Properties>Java build Path under the Source tab point to /mywork/config

Explanation

Where goes your development:

• java/groovy plugin (a plugin is just a java bean class) goes in your source directory /src (to create)
• velocity templates goes in /template (directory already present)
• template metadata xml goes in mywork/config directory.

Now you can run a minuteproject configuration from you eclipse workspace. 

Test

Create a configuration (if you do not know you can copy one from /demo/config) into mywork/config. Example mp-config-fitnesse.xml

In eclipse

• Add a configuration in eclipse

• Add in the argument tab mp-config-fitnesse.xml

• Click run