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Skyway Builder CE Eclipse Plugin is used for adding Skyway Builder to an existing installation of Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede) with JDK 5.  If you are a java developer using Eclipse, then you will more than likely  be interested in this version.

Current Releases

• Skyway Builder 6.3 Hosted Update Sites for Eclipse 3.4.2
  
  • USA -
    http://downloads.skywayperspectives.org/builder/updates
  • Europe
    http://downloads3.skywayperspectives.org/builder/updates
  • Asia
    http://downloads2.skywayperspectives.org/builder/updates
• Skyway Builder 6.3 Update Site Download for Eclipse 3.4.2
  
  • SourceForge
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/skywaybuilder/files/ (Skyway6.3-CE-UpdateSite.zip)

Which version of Eclipse?

Skyway Builder functions as a set of Eclipse plug-ins (84 mb). If you already have Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede) installed, you can skip to the installation steps.  If you don't already have Eclipse installed, we recommend you download Skyway Builder 6.3 RCP, a prebundled version of Skyway Builder and Eclipse that includes all required Eclipse plugins .  If you want to install Eclipse and Skyway Builder separately, you need to download Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede). 

There are several Eclipse distributions that you can download.  If you only plan on developing with Skyway Builder, then you should download Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Ganymede 3.4.2).  If you think that you may be extending Skyway Builder (i.e. creating custom steps), then we would highly recommend downloading Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers (Ganymede 3.4.2). It is larger, but it has lots of the plug-ins you will need to download separately if using a different Eclipse distribution. Additionally, it contains all the source code for the plug-in development pieces.

Install using Skyway Builder Update Site

• Open Eclipse
• From the "Help" menu, select "Software Updates"
• From the Software Updates and Add-ons window switch to the "Available Software" tab
• Click on Add Site button
• Depending on how you want to install Skyway Builder plugins, either add a remote site or a local site.
  
  • Remote Site: .
    • Enter an update site URL in the Location field.  See above for available update site URLs.  Click the "OK" button.
  • Local Site:
    
    • Click on the Local button
    • Select the folder that you unzipped the Skyway update bundle to.
• On the Add Site window, click the OK button
• From the Software Updates and Add-ons window, expand the Skyway update site entry (i.e. http://downloads....).
• For Skyway Builder Community Edition (open source) - select the following plugins to install

• For Skyway Builder Enterprise Edition (license required) - select  the following plugins to install:

• For Skyway Builder Enterprise Edition for IBM RSA (IBM RSA 7.5.2 and license required) - select the following plugins to install (see the IBM RSA Installation Wiki page):

• Click the "Install" button.
• The Install window will ask you to confirm the items you are installing.  Click the Next button.
• You should now be at the license screen. Once you have read the required licenses, click the "I accept the terms of the license agreements" radio button.
• Now click the "Finish" button.
• The required plug ins will now download and install into Eclipse. When this is completed, you will be prompted to restart Eclipse.
• EE Users: After Eclipse restarts, import your Skyway License by going to Window > Preferences > Skyway > License
• We recommend the following Eclipse memory profile which can be set in eclipse.ini:

  -showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXPermSize
30M
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m


Forum Postings relating to some potential installation issues:

• Install issue with GMF file

Installation Complete

Congratulations, you have just installed Skyway Builder CE and all the prerequisite plugins that it requires. We hope that you enjoy using Skyway Builder CE and that you let us know what new features you would like to see along with any problems that you might encounter.