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Reputation: 10204

Best practices for building, version controlling, testing, archiving a Java project in Eclipse?

I would like to know the best practices in your mind to do things like those mentioned in this title.

Here is the background. I am involved in a personal Java project and hope to test, build, archive, and publish them systematically. I am using Eclipse 3.7. Since I am quite new to all those great tools that enhance productivity, like ANT, Maven, Svn, Git, etc, I am ready to pick up and learn any of them.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 398

Answers (2)

Boris
Boris

Reputation: 2521

Nowadays, more and more project use maven as project packaging tool. It is convenient and help you to solve the dependency problem.

However, as you are new to the tools, I suggest you to use Ant first. In My opinion, it will be easier to use for beginner. I personally prefer to use Eclipse as development tools and Ant as build tools because Ant integrates well with Eclipse.

For source code version control, I suggest to use SVN. You could download convenient SVN client like Tortoise. http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Upvotes: 2

jjathman
jjathman

Reputation: 12604

My best advice is to learn how to build, test, and package your code without Eclipse first. Newbies can get confused because their IDE will do things for them without understanding why.

I personally prefer Gradle over Ant or Maven but it is newer and might be harder to find examples for. For an SCM I think subversion is easy to pick up but all the cool kids use Git and Github so you might want to learn them as it will only help you in the future.

http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/tutorial_java_projects.html

Upvotes: 4

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