Thursday, July 30, 2009

Blog Suspended [UPDATED]

I'm temporarily suspending this blog until I get a stable lifestyle. lol

Will be back this September, hopefully. I'll still keep on learning darkstar and eclipse, though. :)

[10.07.09]
UPDATE: Back online! Yey! I'm thinking of changing the title and topic of this blog. The Fanboy Blog will now be known as "Have Internet, Will Program" and will cover anything internet and/or anything programming, especially game programming.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

How to Get the Maven Plugin for Eclipse

Maven is a Java Project Management tool that makes life a lot easier for java developers. You'll need it eventually specially if you are going to try out Project Darkstar development exclusively in Eclipse. To learn more about maven, visit the official website.

This how-to is for the online installation of the Maven plugin for Eclipse, meaning YOU WILL NEED AN ACTIVE INTERNET CONNECTION.

To install it, open Eclipse. Then, go to Help>Install New Software. Click the "Add" button.
Type in anything you want for the Name field... e.g. "maven2"
Paste this onto the Location field: "http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update/"
You may also choose to download stable development builds by pasting
"http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update-dev"

Wait for a bit while eclipse tries to locate the files needed for download.
When it's done checking, try clicking next.
YOU MAY NOTICE THAT IT CANNOT CONTINUE.
You need to uncheck the components mentioned in the Details - the ones it can't find.
From what I encountered, it was Maven Integration for AJDT and Maven SCM handler for Subclipse.

After this, you only need to click Finish. NOTE that sometimes the Finish Button doesn't become clickable. This is just a minor bug. Just click Cancel and do the whole process again.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

How to Install Eclipse in Windows

Here's a basic how-to for installing Eclipse on Windows.

I don't like using NetBeans as it has too much overhead and I used it only for laying out (layouting?) my swing components.

You will need:
Once you have downloaded the JRE or JDK executable, just run it on your system and a wizard will guide you through the installation.
After that, just unzip the Eclipse "installer" to whichever directory you like.
You can now run "eclipse.exe".

Feel free to comment or ask me anything. Thanks! ^^