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How to check out, build, and run the Kepler source code using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Below are instructions for setting up Kepler under Eclipse. See the Build System Instructions for other instructions.

Brief Instructions for Setting up Kepler under Eclipse. If you already know Eclipse, SVN, Kepler, and Ptolemy, you may find the hugely abbreviated version of the instructions in this section useful. Note that the ant change-to command uses svn to download the rest of Kepler and Ptolemy II, which can take awhile. The ant change-to command.
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Brief Instructions for Setting up Kepler under Eclipse

If you already know Eclipse, SVN, Kepler, and Ptolemy, you may find the hugely abbreviated version of the instructions in this section useful. Details follow in the remaining sections. We recommend using the newest release of Eclipse, these instructions were last validated for Indigo in November, 2011. The basic steps you need to follow are:

As of April 2016, you must have the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8 installed. To test this, run
You must have Ant 1.8.2 or later installed. To test this, run
You must have Maven 3.0.3 or later installed. To test this, run
You must have a Subversion installed. To test this, run
To use Kepler from within Eclipse, you must first check out Kepler from the command line
Note that the ant change-to command uses svn to download the rest of Kepler and Ptolemy II, which can take awhile.
Important: Currently, to switch between kepler-1.0.0 and the devel tree, you must remove your ~/.kepler directory. If you don't do this, then there will be no actors in the actor pane! The easiest way is to run ant clean-cache.
Start up Eclipse in a fresh workspace or do File -> Switch Workspace -> Other and enter a new directory into the 'Workspace' field.
In Eclipse, import the project created by running ant eclipse by selecting File -> Import -> General -> 'Existing Projects into Workspace' and then browsing to the kepler directory created above, hit Finish. The build may take 10-15 minutes, see Bug 4191.
KarDoclet.java uses doclet code from tools.jar.
Windows users: if you are using Java 1.8, you will need to add tools.jar to the list of external jars.
Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs
Select the default JRE -> Edit -> Add External Jars -> Path to JDK/lib/tools.jar
where Path to JDK is the location of your JDK, such as C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0. Path to JDK/lib can be seen under existing JRE system libraries
Mac users usually don't need to do the above step, but if you are using Oracle JDK 1.8.0, then add tools .jar to the list of external jars:
Eclipse -> Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs
Select the default JRE -> Edit -> Add External Jars -> Path to JDK/lib/tools.jar
where Path to JDK is the location of your JDK, such as /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/tools.jar
Under Windows, you may need to removed dependencies on apple-extensions, see Bug 4342.
Create a new Java Application Run Configuration by going to Run/Run Configurations. In the main tab set the project to be the suite you want to run, e.g., 'kepler', 'reporting', etc.', and set the Main class: 'org.kepler.Kepler'
See Developing a Hello World Actor using the Kepler Build System and Eclipse

Detailed Instructions for Setting up Kepler under Eclipse

For the rest of us, the remainder of this document covers the following topics in detail:

1. Installing Java

Currently, Kepler requires Java 1.8, which is also known as Java 8.
Check your version of java with java -version. You should see something like:

Windows: If your path is incorrect, then under Windows, with bash, to set your path, use something like

If you don't have Java, then install the Java SE JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html.
Note that the JRE will not work, the JRE does not have the javac Java Compiler.

2. Installing Ant

You must have Ant 1.8.2 or later installed. To test this, run

To install Ant, download it from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
Windows: Using the cmd prompt or a cygwin bash shell , install the apache ant .tar.gz file. The .zip file does not include an ant script, it includes Python and Perl scripts that are harder to use. To install Ant, see http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html, or follow these instructions (this example uses the Cygwin bash shell):

Windows: Then, set up the environment to find ant and set a few variables. Start -> My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables

Add c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin to the PATH
Create a new environment variable called ANT_HOME and set it to c:cygwinusrlocalapache-ant-1.8.2 (note: use backslashes and no trailing slash)
Create a new environment variable called JAVA_HOME and set to to the location of your Java Development Kit. For example c:Program FilesJavajdk1.7.0_60
Start up a shell and type ant -version. You should see something like:

3. Installing Subversion

You must have the Subversion command line tool installed, see http://subversion.tigris.org/. TortoiseSVN will not work, get the svn command line tool. To test this, run

4. Downloading Kepler

To use Kepler from within Eclipse, you must first check out Kepler from the command line:

Note that the ant change-to command uses svn to download the rest of Kepler and Ptolemy II, which can take awhile. The ant change-to command can be used to select other configurations, type ant change-to to see other choices.

Important: Currently, to switch between kepler-1.0.0 and the devel tree, you must remove your ~/.kepler directory. If you don't do this, then there will be no actors in the actor pane! The easiest way is to run ant clean-cache.

5. Downloading Eclipse

Eclipse is available from http://www.eclipse.org. You should download the latest version 3 stable version to be able to follow these instructions. They were generated using Eclipse Indigo, which corresponds with version 3.7.1.
Eclipse comes in several varieties, if you are a Ptolemy developer, choose 'Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers'.
If you are a Kepler-only developer, the 'Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers', will likely work, but these instructions were tested using 'Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers'.
In October, 2011, we chose Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers. The Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers version includes the plugin development environment (PDE), which is needed by the backtrack facility, which is an optional part of Ptolemy II that allows models to restore their old state. If the version of Eclipse that you install does not have the PDE, then there will be build errors, which can be fixed by excluding ptolemy/backtrack/ from the build. Kepler does not use the backtracking facility, so you may be ok with a different version of Eclipse.

Mac OS X: Download the .tar.gz file, click on it and then drag the eclipse folder to your Applications folder.
Windows: Unzip Eclipse into your program files directory
Ubuntu: 'sudo apt-get install eclipse-platform eclipse-rcp'

Create a location to store all of your source code and workspace configuration parameters. I use ~/workspace
Start up Eclipse

6. Configuring Eclipse

Windows: In order to run Eclipse smoothly use the following command line:

$WORKSPACE defines where your workspace directory is. If you omit it, it will default as a subdirectory of your Eclipse installation.

Every option after the -vmargs flags gets passed to the JVM running eclipse. You ne

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