Installing the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in

Before starting

Please note that Objecteering must be installed before it can be used in Eclipse.

When Eclipse is run for the first time, you should indicate the workspace where Eclipse projects are stored. You can specify any location, as there are no particular rules regarding the installation procedure or the location of the Objecteering work directory.

From a technical standpoint, we recommend against defining the Eclipse workspace in the Eclipse installation directory, so as to avoid a general slowing-down of the environment.

Installing the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in

After launching Eclipse, go into the Eclipse "Help\Software Updates" menu, in which you are going to ask Eclipse to find and install the Objecteering plug-in.

Running the “Find and Install” command

Go into the “Help/Software Updates” menu and select “Find and Install”.

The “Feature Updates” window then appears. In this window, you are going to indicate how you want to search for the features that are to be installed. For an initial installation, the Objecteering plug-in must be declared as being a new feature to install.

Indicating how you want to search for features to install

Select “Search for new features to install” and click on the “Next” button.

In the “Update sites to visit” window, you are going to ask Eclipse to reference the Objecteering plug-in through the “New Archived Site” installation site, by clicking on the “New Archived Site” button.

Selecting update sites to visit

After clicking on the “New Archived Site” button, the “Select Local Site Archive” window appears.

The “Select Local Site Archive” window

Select the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in file, which is in the form of an Eclipse-format compressed file located in the Eclipse sub-directory of the Objecteering installation directory, and then click on the “Open” button.

The “Edit Local Site” window then appears.

The “Edit Local Site” window

In this window, confirm the installation site referencing mode by clicking on the “OK” button.

The “Update sites to visit” window

Simply check the tick box for the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in site and then proceed with the completion of your installation in Eclipse, by clicking on the “Next” button.

In the case of the Objecteering plug-in, all the features to be installed (or updated) must be installed in Eclipse.

The “Search Results” window

Check all the Objecteering plug-in features shown in the window and then click on the “Next” button to continue.

The “Installation” window indicates the location where the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in will be installed. By default, the Objecteering plug-in is installed in the Eclipse directory where the other community plug-ins are stored, unless your particular configuration is different from the default Eclipse installation.

The “Installation” window

Simply click on the “Finish” button to launch the installation procedure.

In the latest versions of Eclipse, an Eclipse confirmation window called “Feature Verification” then appears. This window provides a summary of the feature you are about to install.

The “Feature Verification” window

Simply click on the “Install” button to proceed with the installation of the Objecteering for Eclipse plug-in.

Once installation is complete, you will have to continue by confirming that you want to restart Eclipse, in order for the new Objecteering plug-in to be taken into account.

Choosing to restart Eclipse

Simply click on the “Yes” button to restart Eclipse.