docker-eclipse
Eclipse v4.4.1 in a Docker container
Requirements
- Docker 1.2+ (should work fine on 1.0+ but I haven't tried)
- An X11 socket
Quickstart
Assuming $HOME/bin
is on your PATH
and that you are able to run docker
commands without sudo
,
you can use the provided eclipse
script to start a disposable
Eclipse Docker container with your project sources mounted at /home/developer/workspace
within the container:
# The image size is currently 1.131 GB, so go grab a coffee while Docker downloads it
docker pull fgrehm/eclipse:v4.4.1
L=$HOME/bin/eclipse && curl -sL https://github.com/fgrehm/docker-eclipse/raw/master/eclipse > $L && chmod +x $L
cd /path/to/java/project
eclipse
Once you close Eclipse the container will be removed and no traces of it will be kept on your machine (apart from the Docker image of course).
Making plugins persist between sessions
Eclipse plugins are kept on $HOME/.eclipse
inside the container, so if you
want to keep them around after you close it, you'll need to share it with your
host.
For example:
mkdir -p .eclipse-docker
docker run -ti --rm \
-e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
-v `pwd`/.eclipse-docker:/home/developer \
-v `pwd`:/workspace \
fgrehm/eclipse:v4.4.1
Help! I started the container but I don't see the Eclipse screen
You might have an issue with the X11 socket permissions since the default user
used by the base image has an user and group ids set to 1000
, in that case
you can run either create your own base image with the appropriate ids or run
xhost +
on your machine and try again.