Eclipse

Code Style / Initial IDE Configuration

Additional configuration of Eclipse for contributors (and committers):

Recommended way to setup your editor is via .editorconfig file located at the project’s very root. However, at the time of writing we could not find any Eclipse integration for editorconfig.org, hence an import order configuration file .editorconfig.eclipse.importorder for Eclipse is provided (located at the project’s very root).

Also:

set up code formatting
set up the code style templates
set up code style cleanup

Prepare for Build

As a rule of thumb, you should:

build the framework once outside of the IDE, using Maven
in the IDE, open the project from the top-level pom.xml

Although not mandatory, you might also find it worth closing the causeway-schema module. That’s because this module uses a Maven plugin to generate code from XSDs, and sometimes the IDE might overwrite/remove these generated files.