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*guides-headless*
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Eclim Headless Server Guide
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The eclim daemon supports running both inside of the eclipse gui and
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as a "headless" non-gui server. However, even in the headless mode,
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eclipse still requires a running X server to function. If you are
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running eclim on a desktop then this isn't a problem, but some users
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would like to run the eclim daemon on a truly headless server. To
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achieve this, you can make use of X.Org's Xvfb server.
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Note: This guide uses the Ubuntu server distribution to illustrate the
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process of setting up a headless server, but you should be able to
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run Xvfb on the distro of your choice by translating the package
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names used here to your distro's equivalents.
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The first step is to install the packages that are required to run
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eclipse and eclim:
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- Install a sun jdk:
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>
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$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
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- Install Xvfb and some other gui related dependencies:
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$ sudo apt-get install xvfb libgtk-directfb-2.0-dev x11-xkb-utils libgl1-mesa-dri
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The next step is to install eclipse. Usually the eclipse version
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found in your distro's package manager repository is behind the latest
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versions found on eclipse.org and may not be supported by eclim any
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longer. So, the recommended means of installing eclipse is to
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download a version from eclipse.org (http://eclipse.org/downloads/).
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You can either use a console based browser like elinks, or you can
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navigate to the download page on your desktop and copy the download
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url and use wget to download the eclipse archive. Once downloaded you
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can then extract the archive in the directory of your choice.
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$ wget <eclipse_mirror>/eclipse-java-galileo-linux-gtk.tar.gz
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$ tar -zxvf eclipse-java-galileo-linux-gtk.tar.gz
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Once eclipse is installed, you can then install eclim. Since the
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eclim installer does not yet support console installs, you can
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checkout the code from git and build it:
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- Install the necessary packages to build eclim:
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$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core
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$ sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install ant ant-optional
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- Clone eclim from the git repository and optionally checkout the
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version of eclim you wish to build (1.5.2 in this case):
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$ git clone git://github.com/ervandew/eclim.git
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$ cd eclim
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$ git checkout 1.5.2
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- Then you can build eclim with the plugins you wish to enable (see
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the developers guide (|guides-development|) for more info on
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building eclim).
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$ ant -Declipse.home=/home/ervandew/eclipse -Dplugins=ant,jdt
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If you want to build in support for one or more eclim plugins for
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which the required dependency is not installed in your eclipse
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distribution, you can install the dependency using eclipse's p2
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command line client. Make sure the command references the correct
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repository for your eclipse install (galileo in this example) and
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that you have Xvfb running as described in the next step of this
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guide:
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DISPLAY=:1 ./eclipse/eclipse -nosplash -consolelog -debug
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-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director
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-metadataRepository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
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-artifactRepository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
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-installIU org.eclipse.wst.web_ui.feature.feature.group
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For a list of eclim plugins and which eclipse features they require,
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please see the installer dependencies (http://github.com/ervandew/ec
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lim/blob/master/src/installer/resources/dependencies.xml). Note
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that the suffix '.feature.group' must be added to the dependency id
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found in that file when supplying it to the '-installIU' arg of the
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above command.
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The last step is to start Xvfb followed by eclimd:
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$ Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 &
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$ DISPALY=:1 ./eclipse/eclimd start
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When starting Xvfb you may receive some errors regarding font paths
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and possibly dbus and hal, but as long as Xvfb continues to run,
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you should be able to ignore these errors.
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The first time you start eclimd you may want to omit the 'start'
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argument so that you can see the output on the console to ensure
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that eclimd starts correctly.
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vim:ft=eclimhelp
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