Eclipse setup with GWT and SVN

Setup

1. Download and install Eclipse for Java developers
2. In Preferences->General->Editors->Text Editors, set Display tab width to 2, check Insert spaces for tabs, and set Print margin column to 100.
3. Install the eclipse plugin for gwt+appengine
4. Install SVN eclipse plugin: subversive with SVNKit Connectors (if that fails, you can try subclipse)
5. Learn what is SVN and how to use it. I also recommend installing tortoise SVN if you have windows.
6. Update your SVN configuration file: important because end-of-line is different on unix and windows.
7. Get your Google's SVN password. You'll need it for the next stage to checkout the code.
8. From eclipse, checkout the directory nyu-gaming-course-2013 out of https://nyu-gaming-course-2013.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/eclipse/ , follow these instructions
9. If you have build problems, you might need to update your eclipse AppEngine SDK (in your build path settings) to the latest version. Similarly for your GWT version.

Tips

• Ctrl+Shift+O optimizes all your imports (removes unused imports).
• Ctrl+Shift+F formats your code nicely.
• Shift+Alt+UP selects enclosing element.
• Shift+Alt+L extracts local.
• Shift+Alt+Z surround with XXX.
• Ctrl+Space is smart auto-complete.
• Ctrl+F8 to switch perspectives
• Ctrl+1, 2, 3 quick fix, quick assist, quick access
• Alt+Shift+R rename
• Ctrl+Shift+G find usages
• Ctrl+Shift+M makes a static import for a static method call