Code: Dev Environment Setup

To contribute to MigrateDB you will need to set up your development environment so that you can build and run MigrateDB.

For this you will need to set up Git, a JDK, Maven and your IDE.

Git

MigrateDB uses Git for version control. Download the latest version from the Git homepage.

Make sure the directory containing the binaries has been added the PATH. If you downloaded an installer this should have been taken care of for you.

JDK

MigrateDB depends on JDK 11 or later.

Maven

MigrateDB is built with Maven 3. So grab the latest version from the Apache website.

After the installation is complete

set up an environment variable called M2_HOME that points to your Maven installation directory
add the bin directory under M2_HOME to the PATH

IDE

We use IntelliJ for development. You can grab the latest version from the JetBrains website.

Eclipse should be fine too. However Eclipse has different defaults for code formatting and import reordering. Keep this in mind so merge conflicts can be reduced to a minimum.

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