Setup

It is advised that the Eclipse Development Environment and the Target Environment are separated. Here, we will refer to them as SDK and Target respectively.

You can set the whole thing up differently, but this is how I do it.

This setup only make sense if you are developing GenericFX and its derivatives. In particular, this approach assume that you are going to modify so many packages in GenericFX and its derivatives that it make no sense setting the target environment to GenericFX, especially the RCP version. If you only need to modify your own code and not GenericFX, consider setting up the target environment to be the actual GenericFX environment itself.

Other documents:

• Launch Configurations
• Script Engine Setup

• Java 1.4. Cannot use Java 1.5.

1. Setup the SDK and Target separately.
2. Get the SDK to use Target for Run/Debug by pointing Windows→Preference→Plug-in Development→Target Platform to the location of Target.
3. Test Run/Debug.
4. Add BeanShell plugins (org.beanshell) to Target platform. org.beanshell can be found from the download section for GenericFX at SourceForge.net.

Cinly’s preferred directory structure:

AJDT 1.3 release on December 20, 2005 fails to work on my computer. Therefore, do not use AJDT version 1.3.0.20051220093604. I am using the AJDT 1.3RC, i.e., 1.3.0.20051214130641.

Install the versions with source and user documentations, a.k.a. SDK):

1. eclipse-SDK-<version>-<os>.tar.gz
2. GEF-SDK-<version>.zip
3. AJDT (AspectJ Development)

Do Application Specific Setup first. For RCP, you will need to look at RCP Setup section as well.

For rcp:

1. eclipse-RCP-<version>-<os>.tar.gz (”Runtime Binary”)
2. eclipse-RCP-delta-pack.zip
3. org.eclipse.ui.ide
4. org.eclipse.core.filesystem (Eclipse 3.2)
5. org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility
6. org.eclipse.ui.views
7. org.aspectj.weavingruntime - from AJEER (http://ajeer.sourceforge.net)
8. org.eclipse.transformer - from AJEER

For ide:

1. ecplise-platform-<version>-<os>.tar.gz (”Runtime Binary”)
2. eclipse-JDT-<version>-<os>.tar.gz
3. eclipse-PDE-<version>-<os>.tar.gz
4. GEF-runtime-<version>.tar.gz
5. org.aspectj.runtime_<version> from the AJDT SDK kit.
6. org.aspectj.weavingruntime - from AJEER
7. org.eclipse.transformer - from AJEER

For rcp-dev:

1. eclipse-RCP-SDK-<version>-<os>.tar.gz (”Runtime Binary”)
2. org.eclipse.ui.ide
3. org.eclipse.core.runtime.compatibility
4. org.eclipse.ui.views
5. org.aspectj.weavingruntime - from AJEER
6. org.eclipse.transformer - from AJEER

For ide-dev:

1. ecplise-platform-SDK-<version>-<os>.tar.gz (”Runtime Binary”)
2. eclipse-JDT-SDK-<version>-<os>.tar.gz
3. eclipse-PDE-SDK-<version>-<os>.tar.gz
4. GEF-SDK-<version>.tar.gz
5. Full AspectJ, no need for AJDT.
6. org.aspectj.weavingruntime - from AJEER
7. org.eclipse.transformer - from AJEER

It is necessary to add the following plugins:

For some reasons, org.eclipse.resources may need to be copied separately into the RCP setup.