I have just seen the new post instructing everyone to check the Wiki before posting and to update it after giving an answer to a question that others may find helpfull.

The installing JBoss IDE page misses out one installation method - 'Compiling From Source'

Could someone please let me know - Does JBoss IDE compile straight from CVS when following the build instructions on sourceforge or are these out of date?

If there is a known issue I do not need to spend time tracking it down, if however it should compile I can spend time identifying why my build is failing.

Yes those instructions seem to match the instructions available from SourceForge.

Once thing that I have noteced it that I have got a 'org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.help' project from somewhere which I have now removed.

When you do a fresh checkout from CVS are you able to get everything working straight away using Eclipse 3.0M8?

Now I have deleted everything for JBoss-IDE and I have checked out the eclipse-3-0 branch again.

I have followed through the instructions in the Wiki

For some reason I still have an extra project that is not mentioned 'org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.help', should this be mentioned in the Wiki?

This time I do not have a site project, has this been removed recently?

After importing the listed projects I selected all projects (except feature) and invoked update classpath.

On the feature.xml contained within feature I invoked 'Create Ant Build File', this completed successfully after a short while.

I then ran ant for the build.xml contained within the feature project, I made sure that the build.update.jar, build.jars and zip.distribution targets were all selected.

The build appeared to complete with no errors:-

The 'org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.bin.dist.zip' archive within feature is still being created with no jars inside, just the xml configuration files of the projects.

What step have I missed, is there anything else that I need to configure?

Has anyone tried building JBossIDE from a fresh checkout from CVS using Eclipse 3.0 M8?

Thanks for your help, here is the build.xml file contained within the feature project generated from the feature.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="org.jboss.ide.eclipse" default="build.update.jar" basedir=".">

 <target name="init">
 <property name="feature.temp.folder" value="${basedir}/feature.temp.folder"/>
 <property name="feature.destination" value="${basedir}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="all.plugins" depends="init">
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.apache.xalan/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.core/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.core/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.ui/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.ui/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.core/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.core/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.ui/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.core/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.assist/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.ui/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.run/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 <ant antfile="build.xml" dir="../org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.ui/" target="${target}">
 </ant>
 </target>
 <target name="all.features" depends="init">
 </target>
 <target name="update.feature" depends="init">
 </target>

 <target name="all.children" depends="init,all.features,all.plugins,update.feature">
 </target>

 <target name="children" if="include.children">
 <antcall target="all.children"/>
 </target>

 <target name="build.jars" depends="init" description="Build all the jars for the feature: org.jboss.ide.eclipse.">
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="build.jars"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

 <target name="build.sources" depends="init">
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="build.sources"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

 <target name="build.zips" depends="init">
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="build.zips"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

 <target name="build.update.jar" depends="init" description="Build the feature jar of: org.jboss.ide.eclipse for an update site.">
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="build.update.jar"/>
 </antcall>
 <property name="feature.base" value="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <mkdir dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="gather.bin.parts" inheritAll="false">
 <param name="arch" value="*"/>
 <param name="ws" value="*"/>
 <param name="nl" value="*"/>
 <param name="os" value="*"/>
 <param name="feature.base" value="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 </antcall>
 <jar jarfile="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.jar" basedir="${feature.temp.folder}/features/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="gather.bin.parts" depends="init" if="feature.base">
 <antcall target="children">
 <param name="destination.temp.folder" value="${feature.base}/plugins"/>
 <param name="target" value="gather.bin.parts"/>
 </antcall>
 <mkdir dir="${feature.base}/features/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330"/>
 <copy todir="${feature.base}/features/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330">
 <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="feature.xml," />
 </copy>
 <eclipse.idReplacer featureFilePath="${feature.base}/features/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330/feature.xml" featureIds="" pluginIds="org.jboss.ide.eclipse.core,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.core,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.deployer.ui,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.core,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.launcher.ui,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.core,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.packaging.ui,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.ui,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.assist,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.core,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.run,1.2.330,org.jboss.ide.eclipse.xdoclet.ui,1.2.330,org.apache.xalan,2.4.1,"/>
 <antcall target="ROOTFILES${os}_${ws}_${arch}"/>
 </target>
 <target name="ROOTFILES*_*_*">
 </target>

 <target name="zip.distribution" depends="init" description="Create a zip containing all the plug-ins and features for the feature: org.jboss.ide.eclipse.">
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <mkdir dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="gather.bin.parts">
 <param name="arch" value="*"/>
 <param name="ws" value="*"/>
 <param name="nl" value="*"/>
 <param name="include.children" value="true"/>
 <param name="feature.base" value="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <param name="os" value="*"/>
 </antcall>
 <zip zipfile="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.bin.dist.zip" basedir="${feature.temp.folder}" filesonly="false" whenempty="skip"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="zip.sources" depends="init">
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <mkdir dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="destination.temp.folder" value="${feature.temp.folder}/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.source_1.2.330/src"/>
 <param name="include.children" value="true"/>
 <param name="target" value="gather.sources"/>
 </antcall>
 <zip zipfile="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.src.zip" basedir="${feature.temp.folder}" filesonly="true" whenempty="skip"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="zip.logs" depends="init">
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <mkdir dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="all.children" inheritAll="false">
 <param name="destination.temp.folder" value="${feature.temp.folder}/plugins"/>
 <param name="include.children" value="true"/>
 <param name="target" value="gather.logs"/>
 </antcall>
 <zip zipfile="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.log.zip" basedir="${feature.temp.folder}" filesonly="true" whenempty="skip"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="clean" depends="init" description="Clean the feature: org.jboss.ide.eclipse of all the zips, jars and logs created.">
 <delete file="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.jar"/>
 <delete file="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.bin.dist.zip"/>
 <delete file="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.log.zip"/>
 <delete file="${feature.destination}/org.jboss.ide.eclipse_1.2.330.src.zip"/>
 <delete dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="clean"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

 <target name="refresh" depends="init" if="eclipse.running" description="Refresh this folder.">
 <eclipse.convertPath fileSystemPath="C:/Removable/Work/Development/JBoss-IDE/code/contrib/jbosside/feature" property="resourcePath"/>
 <eclipse.refreshLocal resource="${resourcePath}" depth="infinite"/>
 <antcall target="all.children">
 <param name="target" value="refresh"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>
 <target name="gather.sources">
 <antcall target="children">
 <param name="destination.temp.folder" value="${feature.temp.folder}/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.source_1.2.330/src"/>
 <param name="target" value="gather.sources"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

 <target name="gather.logs" depends="init">
 <mkdir dir="${feature.temp.folder}"/>
 <antcall target="all.children" inheritAll="false">
 <param name="destination.temp.folder" value="${feature.temp.folder}/plugins"/>
 <param name="target" value="gather.logs"/>
 </antcall>
 </target>

</project>

Thanks for your help, now that I know that it should work Ok I will look into it a bit more and let you know what I find out.