Generating the Eclipse project for the component

The Component SDK includes a script to generate an Eclipse project for a new component.

1. At a command prompt, change to the components/portlets directory in the Component SDK.
2. Run the appropriate .sh or .bat version of the create command:

   For example:

   create.sh <componentName> "<componentDisplayName>"

   Where:

   Parameter	Description
   <componentName>	The name of the component. The component name: Must be all lower case. Cannot have spaces. Cannot include the string -ext, because it causes confusion with the ext plug-in extension. For example, my-component-extension would not be a valid name.
   <componentDisplayName>	The display name for the component. If the display name contains spaces, it must be enclosed in quotation marks.

   For example:

   create.sh my-test "My New Test Component"

   The script creates in the portlets directory a new directory for the new component.

   The directory is the component name, with endeca- pre-pended and -portlet appended automatically. For example, if you set the name to my-test, the directory is named endeca-my-test-portlet.

   This directory is an Eclipse project that you can import directly into Eclipse.

3. Import the project into Eclipse.

   If your components depend on shared library projects located within the /shared directory, import those as well.

   Note that it takes some time for projects to build after they are imported.