Installing the Eclipse Development Environment

You must create an Eclipse plug-in to customize the import or export formatters. This section describes how to install the Eclipse development environment. The Eclipse environment is necessary because Manual Tester does not have the development tools to create and modify a plug-in.

You must have internet access to install the Eclipse development environment.
Installing the Eclipse development environment is a four-step process:
  1. Install Eclipse
  2. Install a Java JRE
  3. Install the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
  4. Install Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Runtime, a set of open source tools that run on Eclipse
Note: This procedure applies to the 6.1.1.1 version of Rational Manual Tester. For different versions of Manual Tester, you might need to download a different version of Eclipse, EMF, and TPTP.

Parent topic: Creating an Import Formatter

Installing Eclipse

To install Eclipse on your system:

  1. Using a browser, go to http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/downloads.html.
  2. At the top of the page, click the Previous Releases tab.
  3. Click Release 3.3.0.
  4. Scroll down to Requirements and click the Microsoft Windows version of Eclipse SDK 3.0.2.
  5. Select a geographical site from which to download Eclipse.
  6. At the prompt, open the zip file.
  7. Extract all files to a directory of your choice, for example, C:\MyEclipse.
Note: You can also save the zip file on your hard drive and extract the files from there. Delete the zip file from your hard drive when the extraction is complete.

Installing a Java JRE

Because Eclipse is a Java application, it requires a Java runtime environment to run.

From Microsoft Windows Explorer, copy the Manual Tester JRE directory into the eclipse directory that you created when you installed Eclipse. If Manual Tester is installed in the default location, you would copy C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\eclipse\jre to the directory where you installed Eclipse.

Installing the Eclipse Modeling Framework

To install the Eclipse Modeling Framework on your system:

  1. From a browser, go to http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/downloads.html.
  2. At the top of the page, click the Previous Releases tab.
  3. Click Release 3.3.0.
  4. Scroll down to Requirements and click on version 2.0.2 of the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).
  5. Select a geographical site from which to download EMF.
  6. At the prompt, open the zip file.
  7. Extract all files to a directory of your choice, for example, C:\MyEclipse.

Installing TPTP Runtime

To install TPTP Runtime:

  1. From a browser, go to http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/downloads.html.
  2. At the top of the page, click the Previous Releases tab.
  3. Click Release 3.3.0.
  4. Scroll to the top of the page and click the TPTP Runtime zip file, hyades.runtime_3.3.0_20050623_2150.zip.
  5. Select a geographical site from which to download TPTP.
  6. At the prompt, open the zip file.
  7. Extract all files to the eclipse directory in your Eclipse installation path for example, C:\MyEclipse\eclipse. If you are prompted to overwrite existing files, click Yes or Yes to all.
    Note: This directory is NOT the directory where you installed Eclipse; it is a subdirectory of the Eclipse installation directory.
The setup for the Eclipse development environment is complete. Click C:\MyEclipse\eclipse\eclipse.exe to start Eclipse.
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