Building MARS

MARS uses the NetBeans Platform. Since it is nicely integrated into NetBeans i advise to use NetBeans 8.0 to build MARS. Just open the MARS Suite and build it. Theoretically it should be possible to build MARS with Eclipse but no experience has been made yet. You would have to create a new eclipse project and edit a lot of files by hand.

It is important that you first build the Suite and not the MARS Module. The reasons is that the xml configuration files are copied the first time over into the build folder. With no configuration there will be a NPE.

This also applies when you change the configuration files. You have then to build the suite anew if you want them copied to the build folder.

Alternatively you can change the configuration files directly in the build folder.