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DevRock

The DevRock Suite is a set of dependency, build, and environment management tools which help you develop with tribefire.

You can use any IDE you prefer as long as it supports a Maven/Ant build solution, but we strongly recommend to use Eclipse because of its integration with the DevRock suite.

As part of DevRock Suite, Braintribe provides a series of tools that integrate into the Eclipse IDE to help working with models, tribefire components, artifacts and dependencies.

On this page

  1. DevRock Components
  2. Installing DevRock in Eclipse
  3. Model Builder
  4. Mungo Jerry

DevRock Components

ComponentDescription
Artifact ContainerOrganizes and resolves dependencies when working with artifacts which have a Maven-compatible dependency declaration.
GreyfaceOrganizes dependencies by importing artifacts from several Maven repositories in a controlled manner.
Virtual EnvironmentMaintains different development setups by overriding system properties and environment variables.
Model BuilderAllows you attach a model nature to an Eclipse project.
Mungo JerryManages GWT settings.

Installing DevRock in Eclipse

To install DevRock in Eclipse, do the following:

  1. Select Help/Install New Software...
  2. Click Add... to open the Add Repository prompt window.
  3. In Name: Call the DevRock repository any name you like.
  4. In Location: Enter https://kwaqwagga.ch/devrock-site. This is the release site for DevRock tools.
  5. Click Add, then select all available DevRock components.
  6. Click Finish. The installation starts. Eclipse will restart in the process. When it does, check for DevRock under Window/Preferences to verify that it has been installed.

    You may need to create a new workspace to run Eclipse after DevRock has been installed.

Model Builder

The model builder plugin is an Eclipse plugin that can attach a specific nature to an Eclipse project. You can assign or remove a model nature by right-clicking the model project in package explorer and selecting the appropriate option.

Also, the plugin implements a builder which creates a small .xml file that declares the model dependencies of the model and its declared types by itself. The builder adds a build step to Eclipse Java build process which creates the model declaration file in its internal class repository. By default, the file is <artifact>/classes/model-declaration.xml and contains the following:

  • a list of the model dependencies, i.e. all models that the current model should inherit types from.
  • a list of types the model actually defines by itself
  • a hash map to help tribefire's model management detect changes.

It is only intended for model artifacts version TF#2.0 or higher.

Mungo Jerry

Mungo Jerry (MJ) is only intended to be used by developers working with GWT. MJ helps to manage GWT-specific settings and has an interceptor to make such projects debuggable in Eclipse.