If you have installed Benerator and checked the tutorials, you can go for your first custom data generation. You have different alternatives: With or without an IDE and with or without Maven integration. For a decision help, see Installing Benerator.
As a beginner you will most likely want to learn benerator IDE-based and without Maven configuration work.The easiest way to start is to use benclipse the benerator Eclipse plugin, but it will take a few more days to finish it - it is scheduled for release in March 2009.
So choose the way to your first Benerator project:
- IDE-based without Maven (easiest for the beginner)
- IDE-based with Maven (most convenient but requires Maven knowledge)
- Command-line-based (also viable over terminal connection)
- benclipse (Eclipse plugin - coming soon)
- you can call it programmatically, too - but that's not an appropriate task for the first project
