I have used Subversion version control for a while now, and just started using WSAD. I wanted Subversion functionality in the IDE, and here are the steps to get it working.
Subclipse is an Eclipse plugin that adds an SVN Repository perspective. To install in a WSAD 5.x environment, follow these steps:
- Quit WSAD
- Download Subclipse
- Extract the ZIP file to c:\temp\
- Move the extracted DLL's to the Eclipse root. In my installation it is C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio\Application Developer\v5.1\eclipse
- Move the extracted directories in the plugin directory to the Eclipse plugin directory. In my installation, this is C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere Studio\Application Developer\v5.1\eclipse\plugins
- Download and install Subversion
- Make sure your PATH environment variable contains the directory where SVN.exe is, in my case C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin
- Start WSAD
- Open menu "Window", "Open Perspective", "Other..." and select "SVN Repository Exploring", click "OK"
- If you have made everything as I explained, WSAD now opens SVN Repository Explorer, and you can right click on that pane and choose "New", "Repository Location..."