StreamBase Studio Eclipse Plug-in Site

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Studio Plug-in Sites
Prerequisites
Installing the Studio Plug-ins

Studio Plug-in Sites

StreamBase Systems provides a private URL, and a CD-ROM directory, that contain an Eclipse plug-in site from which you can download and install the StreamBase Studio plug-ins into an existing installation of Eclipse 3.2.

The plug-in sites are designed to provide a snapshot of the Studio plug-ins, and do not provide access to continuing updates to those plug-ins as other Eclipse plug-in sites might do. Because of this single-use access, it is possible for Studio installed from the site to become out of sync with the versions of StreamBase Adapter installations you may have installed. To prevent this version skew, StreamBase Systems restricts plug-in site access to existing customers and well-qualified evaluators.

If you have a StreamBase 5.x Enterprise Edition installation CD-ROM, you already have the plug-in site. Look for a directory named eclipse-update-site at the root of the CD-ROM.

To obtain the private URL for the update site, contact StreamBase Systems Customer Support or your StreamBase Systems representative.

Prerequisites

The StreamBase Studio plug-ins have the following prerequisites:

  • Eclipse 3.2 base installation, which includes the Java Development Tools (JDT).

    (Eclipse 3.3 is explicitly not supported, and the Studio plug-ins will fail to install into Eclipse 3.3 or later.)

  • The GMF and EMF modeling framework plug-ins.

  • Eclipse running on a supported Windows or Linux machine, as described in Supported Configurations. As an unsupported preview, the Studio plug-ins also install on Mac OS X. The plug-ins will decline to install on all other platforms.

The recommended method to obtain these prerequisites is the following:

  1. Download the latest available 3.2.x version of Eclipse from: 

    http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.2.2-200702121330/index.php

  2. Use the Eclipse update mechanism to obtain the GMF and EMF updates from the Callisto Discovery Site.

Installing the Studio Plug-ins

The steps in this section are targeted at experienced Eclipse users, with experience obtaining updates from Eclipse update sites.

  1. Start Eclipse 3.2.x.

  2. Invoke Help → Software Updates → Find and Install.

  3. Select Search for new features to install and click Next.

  4. Uncheck any sites in the list of sites to search.

  5. If you obtained the update site URL, click New Remote Site.

    1. In the New Update Site dialog, in the Name field, enter StreamBase Studio Update Site.

    2. In the URL field, enter the fully qualified URL you obtained from StreamBase.

    3. Click OK.

    4. Make sure the StreamBase Studio Update Site entry is the only entry checked.

    5. Click Finish.

    6. Eclipse takes a moment to connect to the site, then shows the contents of the update site. For example:

    7. Check the lowest level checkbox and click Next.

    8. Accept the license agreement and click Next.

    9. Click Finish.

  6. If you are installing from the CD-ROM update site, click New Local Site.

    1. Browse for the location of the CD-ROM update site. For example: D:\eclipse-update-site and click OK.

    2. Accept the default name in the Edit Local Site dialog, or change the Name field to Local StreamBase Update Site. Click OK.

    3. Make sure the newly added update site is the only entry checked.

    4. Click Finish.

    5. Eclipse shows the contents of the local update site. For example:

    6. Check the lowest level checkbox and click Next.

    7. Accept the license agreement and click Next.

    8. Click Finish.

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