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Install Skyway Builder Community Edition - Eclipse Plug-In

Skyway Builder functions as a set of Eclipse plug-ins (84 mb). If you already have Eclipse (Europa 3.3.2) installed, you can skip to the installation steps.  If you don't already have Eclipse installed, we recommend you download Skyway Builder 6.1 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 3.3.2 (Europa).  Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) is not supported at this time.

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 (Europa 3.3.2).  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 (Europa 3.3.2). 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.

Installation Skyway Builder Plugins:

  • Open Eclipse
  • From the "Help" menu, select "Software Updates" and the sub menu item of "Find and Install .."
  • Select the "Search for new features to install" radio button and click "Next"
  • Click the "New Remote Site..." button
    • Enter "Skyway Update Site" into the Name field
    • Enter an update site URL in the URL field:
      • USA - http://downloads.skywayperspectives.org/builder/ce/6.1/milestones/updates
      • Europe - http://downloads3.skywayperspectives.org/builder/ce/6.1/milestones/updates
      • Asia - http://downloads2.skywayperspectives.org/builder/ce/6.1/milestones/updates
    • Click the "OK" button
  • The entry "Skyway Update Site" should now be checked in the list, if not check it now
  • Click the "Finish" button
  • You may be prompted to select the mirror site you want to download Skyway and other dependent Eclipse plugins from.
  • Once the "Updates" window opens, you should see the "Skyway Update Site" in the list.
  • Click the box to the left of the entry. This will select the Skyway Visual Perspectives plug-in.
  • If you see a dependency error message in the window, do the following:
    • Click the + to the left of the list entry for "The Eclipse Project Updates"  This is a very important step.  Otherwise the next step won't function correctly.  This is a known Eclipse issue.
    • Now click the "Select Required" button
    • All dependency errors should be rectified and you can continue with the installation
  • 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 "Next" button.
  • You may now get a dialog listing optional plug ins. If so, please click the "Next" button.
  • The Install window should now be on its last step. 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.
  • 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:

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.