Introduction

This is the Star Wars Galaxies server emulator for the Java Virtual Machine. The vision for this software is:

• Providing an experience that's reasonably close to the original game servers
• Easily expandable with new functionality
• Good amount of configuration options for in-game features
• Highly efficient use of system resources and solid performance

The way we perform code reviews should reflect these points.

You can find detailed information on the wiki.

Setting up a development environment

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Java Development Kit

In order to compile the source code, you need a JDK installation on your machine. The JAVA_HOME environment variable should point to the directory of the JDK! It should be version 13 as minimum. You can see your installed Java version by running java -version.

Submodules

The project uses submodules. Get them by running: git submodule update --init

Clientdata

This application reads a lot of information from the original game files. An installation of the game is therefore required. Create a folder called clientdata in the root project directory. Extract the following folders of every sku#_client.toc file to the clientdata folder:

• abstract
• appearance
• creation
• customization
• datatables
• footprint
• interiorlayout
• misc
• object
• quest
• snapshot
• string
• terrain

Note that every TOC file won't necessarily have all of these folders! If they're present, extract them. A tool such as TRE Explorer is capable of opening the files and extracting their contents.

You should end up with a structure that looks something like this:

holocore/
	clientdata/
		abstract/
		appearance/
		creation/
		customization/
		datatables/
		footprint/
		...
	gradle/
	res/
	serverdata/
	src/
	.gitignore
	.gitmodules
	LICENSE.txt
	...

MongoDB

User information is read from a MongoDB database that can be run on any machine on your network. Default is the machine that Holocore is running on.

1. Create database: use nge
2. Create a user for Holocore: db.createUser({user: "holocore", pwd: "pass", roles: []})
3. Create your game user: db.users.insert({username: "user", password: "pass", accessLevel: "dev", banned: false, characters: []})

Running Holocore

Compile and run Holocores main code using Gradle: ./gradlew run

Running automated tests

Compile and run Holocores unit tests using Gradle: ./gradlew test --info