IDE setup

Eclipse package

You need an eclipse version with Plug-in Development Environment (PDE), for example Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers

Settings

In project freeplane_devresources you find

• some launch configurations for starting the application
• eclipse code-templates, formatter and clean-up configuration files which must be used if you contribute your code to the project.

Version control integration

You can use eclipse bazaar plugin BzrEclipse. It requires the latest version of bazaar plug-in bzr-xmloutput which is not released yet but can be obtained directly from bazaar repository using command

bzr branch lp:bzr-xmloutput

Useful Eclipse plugins

• For properties files, especially for language resources, the Properties Editor plugin is useful. Install the Properties Editor from the update site http://propedit.sourceforge.jp/index_en.html.