# How to setup development environment

**URL:** <https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468>\
**Category:** Q&A\
**Created:** [2 May 2014 14:48 UTC](https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468 "2014-05-02T14:48:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![leandrors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@leandrors](https://community.ofelia.com/u/leandrors)\
**Post date:** [2 May 2014 14:48 UTC](https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468/1 "2014-05-02T14:48:00Z")

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Hello All!

I’m new to Bonita BPM Open Source and I’ve started to explore the source code to better understand the software architecture.  
I’ve followed the steps in [http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/building-bonita-bpm-source-files](http://documentation.bonitasoft.com/building-bonita-bpm-source-files) to build Bonita from source code.

Although, I was not able to setup the development environment in Eclipse to explore the code and make changes to it. At this moment, I’m specially interested in bonita-engine and bonita-web.

Could someone help me in setting up the development environment for Bonita 6 in Eclipse?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Leandro.

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**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/community_bonitasoft/original/2X/6/6b7b18c0478f2645369e82e009b65e3b97f2cc12.svg) [@system](https://community.ofelia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [5 May 2014 12:02 UTC](https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468/2 "2014-05-05T12:02:54Z")

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Hi,  
bonita-engine and bonita-web are maven project so you can import them as maven project inside eclipse:

- File \> import… \> existing maven project
- Select the root folder of the repository (bonita-engine or bonita-web)
- Select all modules you want to modify

BR,  
Baptiste Mesta.

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**Author:** ![leandrors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@leandrors](https://community.ofelia.com/u/leandrors)\
**Post date:** [12 May 2014 19:20 UTC](https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468/3 "2014-05-12T19:20:48Z")

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Thank you Baptiste!

One more question: I’d like to build an app that uses Bonita API. How can I do this and test the site in my developer machine?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/community_bonitasoft/original/2X/6/6b7b18c0478f2645369e82e009b65e3b97f2cc12.svg) [@system](https://community.ofelia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2014 09:12 UTC](https://community.ofelia.com/t/how-to-setup-development-environment/4468/4 "2014-05-13T09:12:07Z")

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I advise you to take a look here [http://community.ofelia.com/answers/how-setup-development-environment](http://community.ofelia.com/answers/how-setup-development-environment)  
It contains more informations on how to developpe a maven application that use bonita API