SpeADL MAY Installation¶

Java Development Kit¶

You will need to install the Java Development Kit (JDK) in order to run Eclipse.
You can download it here if you don't have it already : http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/

Eclipse Kepler¶

You will need the latest Eclipse Kepler distribution. The Eclipse IDE for Java Developers will be fine.

Warning : make sure you download the version that matches your JDK. If you have a 32bits JDK, take the 32bits version of Eclipse Kepler. If you have the 64bits JDK, choose Eclipse Kepler 64bits.

You can download Eclipse Kepler here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.

If you are behind a proxy you may need to configure Eclipse for it, but this is out of scope of this installation guide.

Add the Make Agents Yourself Update Site¶

Now you are ready to install the MAY plugin for Eclipse.

For that you need to add its update site as well as the update site of the Xtext framework.

Go to Help / Install New Software...

For the Xtext update site, click Add... and enter the following informations:
Name : xtext
Location : http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/tmf/xtext/updates/composite/releases/

For the MAY update site, click again Add... and enter the following informations:
Name : may
Location : http://www.irit.fr/~Victor.Noel/may/update-may-3/

Install the Make Agents Yourself Plugin¶

Then in order to actually install the plugin, select the previously added update site in the drop-down list.
Expand the Make Agents Yourself categroy and select the desired version (the last is at the top).

Then click Next and it will take some times calculating requirements and dependencies.
Click Next again when it shows you the install details and accept the terms of the licence agreements, then Finish.
Click OK when you get the security warning, and accept to restart Eclipse now.

Next Steps¶

Next, you can:

• See how to create a Project and define a SpeADL architecture using MAY: SpeADL MAY Project SetUp
• Configure Eclipse to use Maven in order to exploit the reusable components for MAY: Maven Plugin Install for Eclipse.