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Prerequisites

Install Eclipse

  • Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and download "Eclipse IDE for Java Developers". This is a .zip file.
  • Extract the .zip file to a folder on your computer
  • Run eclipse.exe to start
  • Eclipse will ask you where you want to create your workspace. A workspace is a folder that holds all your projects. You can select the default or specify your own.
  • When eclipse starts for the first time it will present you with the Welcome page. Click the arrow to go to the workbench.

Install plugins: Ivy

  • Start Eclipse and go to the menu item Help – Install New Software.

  • Click Add..

  • In location type http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite

  • Click OK

  • Check ‘Apache Ivy library’ and ‘Apache IvyDE Eclipse plugin’.

  • Click Next and follow the prompts.

  • Click OK to the security warning.

  • Restart Eclipse when prompted to do so.

  • Go to the menu item Window – Preferences

  • Select Ivy in the left hand tree.

  • Check the radio button for ‘Nothing' under 'On Eclipse startup'

  • Select Ivy - Classpath in the left hand tree.

  • Check the box for ‘Resolve dependencies in workspace’

Install plugins: Findbugs

  • Start Eclipse and go to the menu item Help – Install New Software.
  • Click Add..
  • In location type http://findbugs.cs.umd.edu/eclipse
  • Click OK
  • Check ‘Findbugs Feature’
  • Click Next and follow the prompts.
  • Click OK to the security warning.
  • Restart Eclipse when prompted to do so.

Install plugins: PMD

  • Start Eclipse and go to the menu item Help – Install New Software.
  • Click Add..
  • In location type http://pmd.sourceforge.net/eclipse
  • Click OK
  • Check the latest version of PMD
  • Click Next and follow the prompts.
  • Click OK to the security warning.
  • Restart Eclipse when prompted to do so.

Setup PMD

Install plugins: Checkstyle

  • Start Eclipse and go to the menu item Help – Install New Software.
  • Click Add..
  • In location type http://eclipse-cs.sf.net/update/
  • Click OK
  • Check ‘Eclipse Checkstyle Plug-in’
  • Click Next and follow the prompts.
  • Click OK to the security warning.
  • Restart Eclipse when prompted to do so.

Setup Checkstyle

  • Download http://jamsim.googlecode.com/git/eclipse_settings/Checkstyle_oman.xml to your workspace directory
  • Start Eclipse and go to the menu item Window – Preferences
  • Select Checkstyle in the left hand tree.
  • Click New and complete the following:
    • Type: External Configuration File
    • Name: Checkstyle oman
    • Location: select the location to which you save Checkstyle_oman.xml
  • Select `Checkstyle oman’ and click Set as Default
  • Click OK. If asked to Rebuild, click Yes.

Install plugins: Open Extern

Download the JAMSIM source code

  • In Eclipse, right click in the Project or Package Explorer and select Import
  • Under Git, select Projects from Git and click Next
  • If you receive a “Check Home Directory” dialog box, select “Do not show again” and click OK.
  • Click Clone
  • In URI specify https://code.google.com/p/jamsim/
  • Click Next twice
  • In the destination directory, click Browse and navigate to your workspace directory and click Save.
  • Click Finish. This will create a local jamsim repository.
  • Click Next twice. Click Finish.
  • To download all the JAMSIM dependencies, right click on ivy.xml [*] and select Resolve.

Create a JEM launch configuration

JAMSIM comes with some JEM launch configurations for standard R installs on Windows XP machines. If you are on Windows 7, other systems, or if you have installed R and/or R packages into alternative locations, you will need to create your own launch configuration as follows:

  • In Eclipse, open the Run Configurations window
  • Right click Java Application and select New
  • On the Main tab, for Main class, specify org.jamsim.example.RunJEM
  • On the Arguments tab, under VM arguments, specify the following, adapted to the location of jri.dll on your installation:
    • -Djava.library.path="C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.1\library\rJava\jri\x64"
  • On the Environment tab add the following environment variables, adapted to your installation
    • PATH=${env_var:PATH};C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.1\bin\x64
      • Path to R.dll
    • R_HOME=C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.1
      • Path to R directory
    • R_LIBS=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\R\win-library\2.14
      • On Windows 7/Linux/Mac OS X, R packages are typically installed into a user specific package directory. In these cases, the path to the package directory needs to be specified.
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