Subject: Eclipse use at school
From: Paul Freeman (pfreeman@ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 15:54:22 EDT
Hi Class-
As you all know, we will be developing our LoDChecker as a plug in to
the Eclipse IDE. The Eclipse IDE is free and available for download at:
It has also been installed on the machines in the Unix lab at school. I
tried the machines at school as well as installed it on my own Windows
machine at home, and it seems to work pretty well. As is always the
case, there is a little bit of a learning curve when attempting to use a
new IDE. One of the nice things about this IDE though, AspectJ has
developed a plug in for it that allows for easy compilation of your
files with the aspectj compiler. It can also provide some useful
aspectj information, like what join points are being captured by your
pointcuts. (NOTE: AspectJ also makes plug-ins for other IDE's such as
JBuilder and EMACS if you prefer to code in these environments. All the
available plug-ins can be found at:
http://aspectj.org/servlets/AJSite?channel=download&subChannel=compilerAndTools
)
If you are downloading Eclipse for use at home, you will need to
download the AspectJ plug-ins as well. They can be found at:
http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ --follow the link to download. You will
need to download both the AJDT Plug-in and the AJDE Tools Plug-in.
If you are using eclipse on the Unix machines at school, the AspectJ
Plug-ins have already been installed. However you first need t
to set your path variable to point to: (again, do this in your .software file - type resoft afterward to make it take effect, or open up another shell)
/proj/demsys/demjava/packages/eclipse/
you can run eclipse by typing
> eclipse
Regardless of whether or not you are using eclipse at home or at school,
you will need to do some post installation configuration in order for
you to take full use of the AspectJ plug-ins. Instructions can be found
at: http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ - follow the link to Documentation and
then to Post-installation configuration.
Let me know if you have any problems. You should probably at least be
familiar with this IDE as one of the goals of our LoDChecker is to have
it be a plug-in for this environment.
Paul
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