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Version 6 (Luke Murphey, 07/24/2010 12:43 AM) → Version 7/21 (Luke Murphey, 07/27/2010 11:17 PM)

h1. Development Environment

Below is information regarding what you'll need if you want to modify or develop NSIA. You can use whatever IDE you like, or you can use a "preconfigured instance of Eclipse":http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/rap?profiles=868129468_1269911860683718583.

h2. Compiler Requirements

NSIA requires Java JDK 6 (1.6) in order to compile successfully. It will not compile on earlier versions of Java (including Java 1.5).

h2. Libraries

Make sure that the libraries (under the _/lib_ directory) are on the classpath. Additionally, JUnit 3 is required for the unit tests. Note that you will get errors if you link to JUnit 4 as opposed to JUnit 3.

h2. Build Script

NSIA includes an Ant task for handling various development related functions. You'll need to have the svnbinclean run every time a build occurs so that SVN does not think that the java-bin scratch directory is part of the repository.

h2. Local Build Properties

The build script uses a local build properties that sets variables that dictate how the build process will be performed. Below are the attributes that are used:

|_.Property |_.Example |_.Description |
| value.build.version | 0.9.2 | Current version of the application (used when creating the Debian package) |
| value.build.debianpackage.directory | build/dpkg | Directory to use as the temporary directory for building the Debian package|
| value.build.licensekey | 1111-2222-3333-4444-5555 | License key to be used for downloading definitions that will included with the NSIA package (not currently used) |

h2. Creating Debian Packages Using jDeb

The project includes a build target for creating Debian packages using jDeb. For the build script to work you must add the jDeb and library

h2.
"Access restriction: Class is not accessible due to restriction..."

Eclipse may not let NSIA compile giving the message "Access restriction: Class is not accessible due to restriction on required library". This issue is due to an Eclipse setting. To fix it, change the "Forbidden reference" setting to "Ignore"; this setting is under "Errors/Warnings":

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