How to rename a MOLGENIS project in Eclipse

We assume here that you don't have a project yet. Otherwise you can move immediately to step 3.

Step 1: Checkout MOLGENIS distro

To check out MOLGENIS

• Open the SVN perspective
• Right-click to add new SVN http://www.molgenis.org/
• Browse to http://www.molgenis.org/svn/molgenis_distro/3.3
• Right-click and choose check-out
• IMPORTANT: use the name that you want it to have

(Optional) if you have not checked out molgenis core then

• Browse to http://www.molgenis.org/svn/molgenis/3.3
• Right-click and choose check-out
• IMPORTANT: don't rename this project as the distro expects it

Step 2: Disconnect from SVN

To disconnect from SVN:

• Disconnect your project from svn by right-click -> team -> disconnect
• IMPORTANT: if it asks to remove svn stuff, tick yes! This allows you to put it in svn as new project later
• Trick: If your .svn metadata can somehow not be removed and it corrupts your project (preventing you from performing IDE actions), execute the following unix/mac command in the proper project folder: sudo find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Step 3: Rename the web address

To change the web path from /molgenis_distro to /xyz

• On your hard drive open the file '.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component' in your project
• Change line 3 from <wb-module deploy-name="molgenis_distro"> to <wb-module deploy-name="xyz">
• Change line 14 from <property name="context-root" value="molgenis_distro"/> to <property name="context-root" value="xyz"/>
• Save
• Right-click on your project and refresh

NB You can alternatively see this in Eclipse if you change the 'filter' of on your project viewer. You can find a small down triangle on the top of you panel that allows you to set filters. Remove the .* filter.

Step 4: Regenerate your MOLGENIS as usual

• edit xml
• run MolgenisGenerate? and MolgenisUpdateDatabase?
• right-click -> refresh
• right-click -> run on server