Dev Environment

Zia Consulting develops in Eclipse using a setup different than described by Alfresco. We run an embedded version of Jetty with the Alfresco default WARs. At runtime we mix in changes using extra classpath entries and web overlays. This has many benefits: most importantly that we develop functionality without having to restart the repository. When there is a reason to restart the server we make efforts to fix the problem through programming or configuration. ...

Our development environment runs off an exploded a war file in an embedded version of jetty, all running in Eclipse. We typically build the war from source pulled from Alfresco Enterprise SVN. Knowing how to do this means we can checkout from any of the development branches and get a feeling for how different features are progressing without waiting for the official build to be distributed. It also give me a warm fuzzy to know how the beast is built. ...