Using an Existing Eclipse Installation
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Using an Existing Eclipse Installation

This section is optional, for those using an existing eclipse installation instead of one provided with TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme .

[Note]

Using an existing Eclipse (or TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme Studio) installation is possible only for releases with full installers. It is not possible for releases with partial installers, such as service pack releases.

Requirements and Guidelines

TIBCO recommends using the Eclipse software bundled with the TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme software. However, if you prefer to use your existing Eclipse software installation, or want to install Eclipse separately, or want to install TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme for use with the TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme Studio business modeling software product, you must update the existing Eclipse installation with the required plug-ins. You can do this before or after installing TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme .

The Eclipse requirements are:

  • Eclipse release 3.7

  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) release 2.6.0

  • Eclipse UML release 2.2.2

  • The following Eclipse Orbit package plug-ins:

    • Javax XML 1.3.4

    • Apache Commons Codec 1.3.0

    • Apache Commons Httpclient 3.1.0

    • Apache Commons Lang 2.3.0

    • Apache Xerces 2.9

    • Apache XML Resolver 1.2.0

    • Apache XML Serializer 2.7.1

To Use an Existing Eclipse Installation

  1. Download the above files from the Eclipse Foundation web site.

  2. If you have not already done so, install the Eclipse release.

  3. Extract the other components (EMF, UML, and Eclipse Orbit package plug-ins) to the top-level directory of your Eclipse installation.

  4. Install TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme as explained in the section called “Installing TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme ”. Remember to select the Use my own Eclipse installation check box.

    (You can install TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme before you install the Eclipse software if you prefer; but by the next step in this procedure, both should be installed).

  5. Copy the TIBCOBusinessEvents-Studio-plugins.link file from BE_HOME/studio/eclipse/dropins to Your_Eclipse/links.

  6. Also copy TIBCOBusinessEventsExtreme-Studio-plugins.link to the links directory

  7. Configure the Your_Eclipse/eclipse.ini file as follows:

    • Ensure that the VM setting is done for Java 1.6 JVM. Path should appear in a new line: 

      -vm

path to JRE 1.6

    • Add the following properties to -vmargs, each on a new line 

      -DBE_HOME=path to BE_HOME 
-DBEX_HOME=path to BEX_HOME 
-Dstudio.wrapper.tra.file=<path to <BE_HOME>/studio/eclipse/configuration/studio.tra 
-DJDK_LIB=path to JRE 1.6/lib

  8. Change directory to the Your_Eclipse location and run the command: eclipse -clean –initialize

  9. Run the command eclipse.

    Running this command loads Eclipse with the TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme Studio plug-ins.

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