Extending Confluence - Atlassian Confluence 5 Essentials - page 275

1. Make a copy of the original eclipse.ini and name it eclipse.ini.

original .

2. Open the eclipse.ini file in Notepad.

3. Add a -vm entry before any -vmargs entry in the file. The entry should point

to the value of your %JAVA_HOME%/bin . Eclipse requires that you reverse
the slashes to forward slashes. Your file should look similar to this:
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.200.
v20120913-144807
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_17/bin
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m

4. Close and save the file.
5.

Start Eclipse and choose a location where Eclipse will store you workspaces.

Installing the Maven Eclipse plugin
We will be using the Maven Eclipse plugin, which will help us with getting
the dependencies needed for our Confluence plugins.

1. Select Help | Install new Software. Click on the Add button to add

a new repository.

2. Enter Sonatype M2Eclipse in the Name field.

3. Enter http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e in the Location field.