NOTE: This documentation applies to an earlier version of OpenVPMS, and needs to be updated.
OpenVPMS is now typically built with IntelliJ idea, you can still use any other IDE but IntelliJ is quite a full featured IDE specifically built for Java (it does do other languages)
Setting up IntelliJ for OpenVPMS is pretty straight forward.
1. You will an installation of MAVEN - currently OpenVPMS needs a prerequesite maven version of atleast 2.2.1 but you can use higher version successfully.