Eclipse Configuration

Here is how the Shibboleth developers set up their Eclipse environment. These instructions were last updated for 2012's Eclipse Juno, but apply in large part to later releases. We recommend the Eclipse IDE for Java Developers distributionsThese are instructions for setting up Eclipse for development on the Shibboleth software projects in Java. Some of the settings are now global, and mandatory, to ensure code formatting and style, and are no longer maintained within the project repositories, so it is a requirement for developers to create an Eclipse workspace specific to Shibboleth and apply some of the settings globally to get them applied to the imported Maven projects.

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