Importing, building, running, and debugging SoapUI in Eclipse
Importing the SoapUI source code into an IDE is highly recommended if you want to explore, change, and/or debug the application. Again, it's not complicated to do and should be quite quick assuming you have Eclipse installed and are reasonably comfortable with it.
Getting ready
The main part of this recipe assumes that you have already downloaded the SoapUI source code. If you haven't, please see the previous recipe for details.
You'll need a version of Eclipse to follow this recipe. There are various flavors of Eclipse; most Java-related versions should be fine, for example, Eclipse IDE for Java Developers from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. (I used Eclipse STS 3.5.1, which is a bit old but works fine!)
How to do it...
First, we'll import the SoapUI source code into Eclipse. Then we'll run, debug, and optionally build it. Perform the following steps:
(Optional) If necessary, create yourself a new Eclipse workspace. Go to File ...
