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Chapter 2 TIBCO BusinessEvents Installation : Using an Existing Eclipse (or TIBCO Business Studio) Installation

Using an Existing Eclipse (or TIBCO Business Studio) Installation
This section is optional, for those using an existing eclipse installation instead of one provided with TIBCO BusinessEvents.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio is compatible with the Eclipse P2 provisioning system. You can choose to install TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio on an existing Eclipse installation using one of the following approaches:
Executing the script install_studio_repo available at BE_HOME/studio/repo. See Install Using the Script install_studio_repo for details.
Copying the links and updating the .ini files manually. This is applicable only when installing on an existing basic Eclipse installation and not on TIBCO Business Studio. See Install Manually by Copying Links and Updating .ini Files for details.
Eclipse Requirements and Installation Guidelines
TIBCO recommends using the Eclipse software bundled with the TIBCO BusinessEvents software. However, if you prefer to use your existing Eclipse software installation, or want to install Eclipse separately, or want to install TIBCO BusinessEvents for use with the TIBCO Business 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.
The Eclipse requirements are:
Perform the following tasks to ensure that the dependencies required by Eclipse and TIBCO BusinessEvents are installed and available:
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This step is optional if the script install_studio_repo is used as described in Install Using the Script install_studio_repo.
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Install Using the Script install_studio_repo
This option is available only if the Eclipse Platform feature is installed when installing TIBCO BusinessEvents. If the Eclipse Platform feature is not installed, you can use Ant to install TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio as described in Install Using Ant.
When you install TIBCO BusinessEvents (and one or more add-ons), the TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio repositories are installed under BE_HOME/studio/repo. For each of the installed products, a folder with the product name is created under BE_HOME/studio/repo.
Scripts are provided with the repositories to install on an existing Eclipse installation. Using a console window, navigate to BE_HOME/studio/repo and run the following command (on Windows):
install_studio_repo.bat <absolutePathOf_YourEclipse>/eclipse.exe
The script performs the following tasks:
Updates the following properties in Your_Eclipse/eclipse.ini file:
-DBE_HOME=path to BE_HOME
-Dstudio.wrapper.tra.file=<path to BE_HOME>/studio/eclipse/configuration/studio.tra
-DJDK_LIB=TIBCO_JAVA_HOME/lib
The script throws an error with an appropriate message if the Eclipse executable or the eclipse.ini files are missing.
Once the execution is completed, start Eclipse and open the BusinessEvents Perspective to access the TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio features.
Install Using Ant
This option does not require the Eclipse Platform feature to be installed when installing TIBCO BusinessEvents. Ensure that Ant is installed and available in your environment.
Install TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio on an existing Eclipse installation by executing the command:
ant -buildfile install_studio_repo.xml -DappBinary=<absolutePathOf_YourEclipse>/eclipse.exe -DappIni=<absolutePathOf_YourEclipse>/eclipse.ini
The script performs the tasks described in Install Using the Script install_studio_repo. Once the execution is completed, start Eclipse and open the BusinessEvents Perspective to access the TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio features.
Install Manually by Copying Links and Updating .ini Files
This approach can be used to install on any existing standard Eclipse installation only.
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Copy the files TIBCOBusinessEvents-Studio-plugins.link and TIBCOBusinessEvents-EclipsePlatform-plugins.link from BE_HOME/studio/eclipse/dropins_configuration to Your_Eclipse/links.
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Configure the Your_Eclipse/eclipse.ini file as follows:
–vm
path to JRE 1.6
Add the following properties to -vmargs, each on a new line
-DBE_HOME=path to BE_HOME
-Dstudio.wrapper.tra.file=<path to BE_HOME>/studio/eclipse/configuration/studio.tra
-DJDK_LIB=path to JRE 1.6/lib
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Change directory to the Your_Eclipse location and run the command:
eclipse -clean –initialize
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Running this command loads Eclipse with the BusinessEvents Studio plug-ins.

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