This post will help you to install iDempiere development environment.

I have tested this installation for

1. iDempiere 3.1 using this with java 7 update 80 and Eclipse version  Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2)
2. iDempiere 4.1 using java 8 update 112 and Eclipse Version: Neon.2 Release (4.6.2) on my MacBook.

Following are the instruction needs to be followed step by step. If java and Postgres is already installed then skip first two steps.

Install JDK

• For iDempiere 3.1 it required java 7. You can download from following link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-downloads-javase7-521261.html#jdk-7u80-oth-JPR
• For iDempiere 4.1 java 8 is fine. You can use following link to download http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Database

Install PostgreSQL

• https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads#macosx
  

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Mercurial

For managing versions and source code control we need to install Mercurial . It is an open source application. Find the more info & simple useful tutorial. To download the mercurial use following link. It provides a graphical installer.

• https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download

Clone iDempiere

Download iDempiere source tree

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/idempiere/idempiere idempiere

Eclipse

Download eclipse (I am using luna) . There are new versions of eclipse available to download. I have not tested with them.

• https://eclipse.org/luna/

• Eclipse workspace setup - Select the iDempiere cloned directory as the workspace.

  

• Install the eclipse buckminster
  • You need the Buckminster Plugin to assemble the iDempiere project. For this go to  (Menu in Eclipse: Help > Install New Software > Add)
    • Add name as buckminster
    • location – http://download.eclipse.org/tools/buckminster/updates-4.4
  • Now it will load all the available packages for the installation select only
    • Buckminster – Core
    • Buckminster – Maven support
    • Buckminster – PDE support
• Install mercurial plugin
  • Go to eclipse market place , search for mercurial install mercurial version 2.2  or go to eclipse market place and simultaneously open this linke as well https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mercurialeclipse#group-external-install-button you can drag the install from this site to eclipse market place it will automatically prompt you to install.

This is one part of development setup where we finished .

Now to get the iDempiere project into the eclipse.

• Create a targetPlatform – Go to Eclipse –> Preferences –>Plug in Development—>targetPlatform
  • Click on add
  • Nothing: Start with an empty target definition press next
  • give target name I prefer giving iDempiere
  • add —> Directory —> Location —> click on variable select workspace_loc
  • then type targetPlatfrom so the location will look like ${workspace_loc}/targetPlatform .
  • set this as default
• Click on File  —-> Import —-> Buckminster —-> Materialize from Buckminster MSPEC, CQUERY or BOM
• Click on next and select mpsec from clone idempiere directory “org.adempiere.sdk-feature” folder
• make sure that you have active internet connection through out this process.
• now the magic will happen based on the machine

Click on Run Configurations

• Select eclipse application
• install.console.app click on run and install the application on console instructions are given here. This will create configuration file for server.
• then run server.product.

I hope this tutorial will help you to install iDempiere development environment.