Chapter 7 Working with Eclipse

Installing Eclipse EMF

Since Eclipse is an open source project, you can install it and use it free of charge. To install Eclipse EMF, you need to download and install the Eclipse platform and the JDT first. Then you can download and install EMF.

Steps To install EMF:

  1. Go to the web site www.eclipse.org/emf
  2. Select the latest release.
  3. Download the Eclipse EMF runtime binary .ZIP file. You can also download the Eclipse EMF documentation.
  4. Unzip the downloaded .ZIP file into the Eclipse home directory and make sure you keep the folder names as defined in the .ZIP files.

PowerDesigner supports EMF 1.0.1 or higher.

 

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