[helios] Eclipse 3.6 EPP for Windows 64-bit

Today the EPP Downloads for Helios (Eclipse 3.6) Milestone 3 are ready to download.

thanks to the EPP team – this makes it much easier to try out the next Eclipse Helios.

Since Galileo there are also downloads for MacOSX Cocoa – 64 bit, but there’s no direct download for Windows – 64 bit.

I’m running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit (under Parallels Desktop 5 on OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard) and I know that there are many other developers also trying to run 64-bit on Windows 7.

At first be sure that you have the JDK 6 in 64 – bit – if not you can download it from

Then it’s easy to use EPP Packages on Windows-7 64 bit:

1. Download SDK Windows 64 bit (eclipse-SDK-3.6M3-win32-x86_64.zip) from here

2. Install and start as usual

3. Add New Software Site for EPP

http://download.eclipse.org/technology/epp/packages/helios

4. Install New Software and select your EPP Package (per ex. RCP)

5. Next -> Finish -> Restart and you’re done

Eclipse EPP RCP on Windows 7 -64 bit

If you’re wondering about the Look of Windows 7 – there’s a new option “Use Mac Look” since Parallels Desktop 5 to make your windows look like osx

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[helios] HowTo get CDO 3.0 to push View Modifications into running RCP Apps

Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) Milestone 2

Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) has reached the 2nd Milestone and this year the first time so early you can download SDK or EPP packages.

I tried downloading Helios M2 EPP Modeling Package for OSX cocoa 64-bit and got all the projects important to my modeling IDE:

• Xpand/Xtend 0.8.0
• Xtext 0.8.0
• MWE 0.8.0
• EMF 2.6.0
• and more
• but missing: CDO 3.0

Pushing Model Changes into running RCP Apps

Recently we integrated CDO into redView (Riena EMF Dynamic Views for Business Applications) which enables a live-pushing from redView WYSIWYG Editor into running RCP Applications.

Curious ? Here’s a short snapshot, where you see the redView Designer from inside Eclipse IDE and three running RCP Application besides this editor.

done

…you should switch HD ON…

The Business View Designer is designing the View using redView Editor:

• Drag’n'Drop of Elements
• Adding something new
• Undo Modifications etc.

After saving the View these changes are pushed to all running RCP Applications by magic.

Thats behind the magic:

All SWT Views are dynamically rendered by redView, the Views are EMF models, which itself are generated using openArchitectureWare (Xpand/Xtend, MWE) from an UML (Magicdraw) model.

All redView view models are stored into a CDO repository living on a server in another city. All changes are pushed from CDO over the Internet to all connected clients. Without the need of restarting the app or updating/refreshing bundles.

Isn’t this cool ?

(Before you ask: no, there’s currently no download of redView available – you have to wait until november, because we have to prepare a customer event before.)

HowTo install CDO 3.0

We need CDO 3.0 because there was a small problem: CDO scaled well for large models because of lazy loading, but failed loading a small “deep” model like a SWT view at once over the internet. Thanks to Eike Stepper now there’s a new fetching strategy available and it works great

An here’s the solution how to get CDO 3.0 into your Helios M2 installation until there’s a CDO – P2 updatesite online available again.

Please got to the CDO Build: https://build.eclipse.org/hudson/view/Modeling/job/cbi-emf-net4j-cdo-3.0/ and open the last successfull build:

then click on build/N2009….. and from the list select the emf-cdo-update, which is a downloadable P2 Update Site:

After downloading you can unzip and use this as a Local P2 Updatesite:

Now you can install CDO 3.0 and Net4J and finally your Helios M2 Modeling Installation looks like

eclipse update sites and more

Just reading at Eclipse Planet John Bitos experiences how to find the Update Sites for Xtext.

as a reminder for those on vacation last weeks:

UpdateSites

There’s my collection of Update Sites for Galileo, Helios, 3rdParty:

http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/eclipse/update-sites/

P2 Update Sites are great, but its always good to know where to find them

Target Platform, Modeling (oAW)

Also perhaps interesting for someone my blog series about

• IDE and TargetPlatform
• Migration from oAW4 to oAW5 (MWE, Xpand/Xtend, Xtext)

…just working on two new blog-series:

• Logging in OSGI Enterprise Application (a re-work of my old series)
• modeled UI in Business Applications (Riena, redView and more)