Installing Meister as an Eclipse Plug-in

 

Meister can be run inside of Eclipse Based IDEs providing a seamless interface between Meister and the IDE.  All of Meister’s abilities are available to the IDE when Meister is installed as an Eclipse Plug-in. 

 

The following components must be installed and configured on your workstation prior to the installation of the Eclipse Plug-In:

 

•      IBM Rational Application Developer 7.0

•      Eclipse 3.1, 3.2

 

 

You can install the Meister as an Eclipse Plug-in by using the Eclipse Software Update Manager.

 

 

Table SI-14  Installing via Software Update Manager

Step

Action

1

In Eclipse go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install…

2

Choose Search for new features to install

3

Select the Next button

4

Select the New Remote Site button

5

Enter Openmake Software for the name and http://www.openmakesoftware.com/downloads/update_site_7.0 for the URL

6

Select OK

7

Make sure Openmake Software is checked and then select the Finish button

8

Expand the Openmake Software and select Meister

9

Select the Next button

10

Select “I accept the terms in the license agreement”

11

Select the Next button

12

Select the Finish button

13

Select Install All button

14

Select Yes button to restart Eclipse