Using maven from within Eclipse migth be rather tricky, because the maven integration uses the eclipse sdk and compiler settings, which might point to a previously installed jre. There are .ini settings to force Eclipse to use a defined sdk. But this might not work properly. Therefore I recommend to deinstall all other Java JREs and SDKs first. Also delete any Java references in the environment variables.
Download and install the Java SDK (1.6 update 11). Use explorer to open the properties window for desktop-computer. Choose erweiterte Systemeinstellungen and Umgebungsvariablen to set the environment variables. Set JAVA_HOME variable and add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to PATH variable. On a German windows check that e.g. C:\Programme\Java instead of C:\Program Files\Java is set in the variable. As a test start javac from a dos-box. Reopen the dos box after each modification of an evironment variable.
Download apache_maven_2.0.9_bin.zip. And extract to development sofware directory. Add two environment variables:
Check maven by issueing mvn --version on the command line
Download and install java edition (JEE is not needed). Exract to development software directory. Start eclipse and define workspace directory. In the help dialog chose. Software updates. Choose tab available software. Add update site:
Checkout the project sources (this procedure is to be used for old MoDyna Releases, which do not include the correct Eclipse project files):
If necessary include more files to the Build-Path. Use the Eclipse context menu function include to build path and remove from build path. Check the resulting package names. They have to fit to the source codes. Pay attention to include the ressources to the packages. There are ressources for the program as well as for the test suite.
Run the JUnit test suite.
If there are errors, edit test/java/org/modyna/modyna/settings/GlobalTestSettings.java
Run Maven from the command line. It will download maven-plugins as well as libraries to link MoDyna. However not all libraries are available from global maven repositories. Use the installLibsMvn.bat file from the lib directory to add the missing libraries. Unfortunately you can not run the script completely but you have to run each single line. The script will copy the missing libraries to your local maven repository.
Use Run external tools configuration from Eclipse to configure a maven task from within Eclipse. If maven complains that there is no compiler availabe. Chose the sdk instead of the jre as "alternate JRE".
Do not run the mvn site command from within eclipse, because there are heap size limitations. Run mvn site from the command line.
Use mvn assembly:assembly to build all release artifacts.
Use mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true to work on the maven build process.
Install the launch4J application to create exe-Wrappers for MoDyna
Install PuTTY to be able to update the project web site. Double click on the putty.ppk file and enter the password to open this file. You should now see a Pageant process in your taskbar. Open the PuTTY's sftp client. Connect to web.sourceforge.net. Use sourceforgeusername,modyna as user name and your sourceforge account's password as password. Change to the correct remote and local directory. Change to bin mode. Clean remote directory and upload the site files.