Ivy: Maintaining Java Classpath

Before you can start utilizing this auto updating support, you must first set the location of your ivy repository (ivy cache). This is the directory where ivy will download the dependencies to and where eclipse will then pick them up to be added to your project's classpath.

To set the repository location you can use the :IvyRepo command which is made available when editing an ivy.xml file.

        :IvyRepo /path/to/ivy/repository
      

If you fail to set this prior to writing the ivy.xml file, eclim will emit an error notifying you that you first need to set the IVY_REPO variable via this command.

Once you have performed the initial setup, updating the Eclipse .classpath file is as easy as saving your ivy.xml file (:w) and letting eclim do the rest.

When utilizing the ivy support, eclim will attempt to remove any stale entries from your .classpath file. If you have some manually added entries, these may be removed as well. To prevent this you can add a classpath entry attribute notifying eclim that the entry should be preserved.
Ex.

        
        <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/j2ee-1.4.jar">
          <attributes>
            <attribute name="eclim.preserve" value="true"/>
          </attributes>
        </classpathentry>
        
      

Eclim also provides the command :IvyDependencySearch which allows you to search for dependencies in the online maven repository as described in the maven documentation .