Please be aware that this tutorial only shows the option to work with Eclipse. Of course BioMoby is not restricted to that :-) You can use every editor you prefer, although using Eclipse (or any IDE) makes some tasks simpler.

If you use any other text editor, there are only some small differences as to the tutorial:

• CVS checkout:

    Go to any directory in which you like to have the moby code in...

cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/moby login 
(password is 'cvs')
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.open-bio.org:/home/repository/moby co -P moby-live/Java

This will checkout the whole jmoby code.

• Installation

    Make sure that you have ANT installed on your machine and that the ant/bin directory is in the PATH variable and the

    ANT_HOME variable is set to your ant installation.

    Go into your fresh checkout and type

ant install

Thats it. Now you can work with this tutorial here just with the difference to use your editor instead of Eclipse. Of course some sections (like implementing your Web Service), which are described using Eclipse, are not useable for you. In this case you have to figure out how to write Java code in your editor ;-)