Setting Up Eclipse for SWeDE Plugins Development

1. Avoid crowding your current workspace

   Everything in Eclipse is a plugin. Thus a single feature may involve multiple plugin projects. Your normal Eclipse workspace can quickly become crowded. To avoid this, it is best to setup a separate workspace for plugin development.
   1. Create a directory for your plugin workspace (e.g. C:\pi_workspace)
   2. Create a copy of your Eclipse shortcut that calls eclipse.exe -data pi_workspace_dir (e.g. c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -data c:\pi_workspace)
   3. Start your normal Eclipse environment, select Preferences from the Window menu and Export your settings to a file.
   4. Start your new Plugin Eclipse environment, select Preferences from the Window menu and Import that file.

2. Import Eclipse Core Plugins into Workspace

   The core plugins from Eclipse must be in your workspace so that your new plugins can see them.
   1. Switch to the Java perspective (Window->Open Perspective->Java)
   2. File->Import...->External Plug-ins and Fragments. Accept the defaults on the next page.
   3. Click Select All to import all plugins and click Finish. Your workspace should now be filled with about 67 projects.
   4. Select Filters from the pull-down menu on the Package Explorer and select Binary plug-in and feature projects in the subsequent dialog. This will hide all of the core eclipse plugins from your view.

3. Import SWeDE Plugin Projects

   If you do not already have the SWeDE Plugin projects downloaded from CVS on SemWebCentral, do so now.
   

      Checking out the SWeDE source code should create the following directories:
         owl-eclipse/
            com.bbn.swede.core/
            com.bbn.swede.editor/
            com.bbn.swede.feature/
            com.bbn.swede.help/
            com.bbn.swede.library.dumpont/
            com.bbn.swede.library.kazuki/
            com.bbn.swede.library.vowlidator/
            com.bbn.swede.site/
            com.bbn.swede.ui/
            com.bbn.swede.ui.wizards/
            com.bbn.swede.view/
            com.bbn.swede.viz/
            homepage/
            org.daml.jena/
            org.daml.jena.feature/
            org.daml.jena.site/
      

   • Import each project in the order below by selecting File->Import...->Existing Project, browsing to the project directory (e.g. com.bbn.swede.core), and pressing Finish. Right-click on the imported project and select Build Project from the context menu.
     1. org.daml.jena
     2. com.bbn.swede.core
     3. com.bbn.swede.library.dumpont
     4. com.bbn.swede.library.vowlidator
     5. com.bbn.swede.ui
     6. com.bbn.swede.editor
     7. com.bbn.swede.view
     8. com.bbn.swede.viz
     9. com.bbn.swede.library.kazuki
     10. com.bbn.swede.ui.wizards
     11. com.bbn.swede.help
     
     You can ignore the homepage directory and anything ending in feature or site. They contain this document along with other files necessary for the SWeDE Update Site.

4. Run

   The projects are imported and ready to be tested.
   1. Test the plugins (Run->Run As->Run-time Workbench). This will start a second copy of Eclipse.
   2. Switch to the Semantic Web Perspective (Window->Open Perspective->Other->Semantic Web)