So you want to be a Maximo developer. Well the first step is to setup your development environment. First you will need a Maximo development environment. This guide does not cover how to set that up. Although you can technically use any Java IDE, IBM recommends Eclipse IDE. All documentation from IBM is for Eclipse as well as an add-on or two are available for it. So the next question is always “What version?” Any version of 3.1 or above. You can download Eclipse here: http://www.eclipse.org/.
Next you will want to download the setup guides from IBM:
Maximo Eclipse Developer Setup Guide
Maximo Developer Remote Access Guide
Now these guides were created for Maximo 6 but they still work for Maximo 7 with the following changes
- The guide says Eclipse 3.1 but any newer version will work
- Step 1 of the Maximo Eclipse Developer Setup Guide says “Make sure that you have follow all the steps in the document MXES-Initial Eclipse 3.1.1 Setup”, this just means to make sure Eclipse is installed.
- Maximo 7 uses Java 1.5 while Maximo 6 uses Java 1.4
The setup guide talks about how to setup for doing MBO extension. This will also work for field classes and integration development. If you want to do screen development, then you will also need to add to your library the class folder %maximo%/maximouiweb/webmodule/WEB-INF/classes as this is where app beans and data beans are stored.
A couple of other useful tools are:
- Maximo Developer : This is an Eclipse plug-in that helps automate the creation of Mbo Class extensions.
- Maximo View Log : This is a web based tool for quickly viewing the Maximo Log
At this point, you should have a development environment for doing your Maximo work. So, what next? Here are some other resources available to you:
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