Developer How-To Guide

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Create your user profile
- See Creating your OpenMRS User Profile
Install a developer's version of OpenMRS
- See Step-by-Step Installation for Developers
Use Eclipse Effectively
- See Developer How-To Use Eclipse Guide for debugging, watching variables, tuning MyEclipse
How to Add a JAR
- Put your .jar file(s) in the source directory /lib/your-lib-name/
- In Eclipse, Project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries -> Add JAR
  - At this point your JARs will show up in the package explorer
- Without Eclipse, add jar reference to the /.classpath file
- Edit build.xml, properties.xml, and openmrs/lib/lib.properties
How to Use JUnit
- For the core API see Unit Testing
- For modules, see Module Unit Testing
How to View and Attach Lib Source Code
- See Developer How-To Attach and View Source Code
How to use the OpenMRS API
- See Developer How-To Use the OpenMRS API
Create Development Environment
- TODO
Create Modules
- See Modules
- You can also see how-to create Module Extension Points