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The ECNO is based on
Eclipse and
the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).
Therefore, you need to install Eclipse (version 3.7, Indigo) with EMF first.
If you use Windows, you can download a version of Eclipse 3.7 that is
pre-configured for the use with ECNO already:
eclipse-SDK-3.7.win32-mbse.zip.
You just need to extract this file to some directory and then start the file
eclipse.exe in that folder. Note that you still need to install a JRE 6.0 (or higher)
on your computer first.
In case you are working on another platform, here are the steps for installing Eclipse in
the correct way:
- If you have not installed a JRE 6.0 (or higher) on your computer yet,
install it first.
- Download "Eclipse Classic 3.7" (Indigo) for your platform from
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads.
- Extract the downloaded file to whichever location you want eclipse to be installed in.
- Start eclipse on your platform (by starting the executable file called "eclipse" in the
folder to which you extracted eclipse).
- The first time you start Eclipse, it will ask you for a directory where the workspace and
all its contents should be saved. In principle, you can chose any location you like; on Windows
platforms you should chose a very short path (otherwise you might run into problems with too long
path names later).
- Click on the arrow icon ("Workbench") on the right-hand side to go to the workspace.
- Next, you need to install the EMF from the indigo update site together with some
projects EMF depends on. Since eclipse automatically installs all required extensions
(if the resp. checkbox is checked), we
just need to select "EMF Eclipse Modeling Framework SDK".
In order to install new software (extensions) for eclipse
select "Help->Install New Software...". In the opened
dialog, select the Indigo download site ("Indigo - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo").
Then, enter the text "EMF" in the filter field.
This should reduce the choices of extensions to the "EMF Eclipse Modeling Framework SDK"
features; select this feature and follow through the installation process. Remember that you need
to check the box "Contact all update sites during install ..."; and remember that you must
accept the license at some point in order to proceed.
- In order to get a more convenient editor for the EMF (ecore) models, you should also
install the "Ecore Tools SDK" in the same way as described for EMF above ("Ecore" as
a filter for finding it would do).
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