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The preconfigured Eclipse projects for two sample plugins and a batch mode (command-line) tool are provided with a program installation. These projects can be found in <modeling tool installation directory>/openapi/ide/eclipse.zip.

Let's use MagicDraw as an example to describe the following procedures.

To setup the Eclipse environment for the modeling tool development

1. Import java projects from <modeling tool installation directory>/openapi/ide/eclipse.zip into your Eclipse Workspace:
   1.1. In the main menu, click File > Import. The Import dialog opens.
   1.2. In the Select an import wizard list, select General > Existing Projects into Workspace and click Next.
   1.3. Copy the java projects zip location to the Select archive file box or click Browse and browse to the zip file. The project list appears in the Projects box.
   1.4. Select projects you need and click Finish.
   
   

   

2. Anchor
   step2 step2

   Open the Package Explorer view, expand the MagicDraw project and edit the MAGIC_DRAW_INSTALL_DIRECTORY link:
   2.1. Right-click the link and select Properties.
   2.2. On the left side of the opened dialog, select Resource and click the Edit button on the right side of the dialog. The Edit Link Location dialog opens.
   2.3. Select the location and click OK.

   Warning
   Be sure the link points to your MagicDraw (or other according to a modeling tool you are using) installation directory (see the following figure).

   

3. Make sure Java 11 version exactly is used by the MagicDraw project in your Eclipse IDE:
   3.1.

   Right

    Right-click

   on the

   the MagicDraw

   project

    project and

   select

   select Properties.
   3.2.

   On

    On the left side of the

   opened

   open dialog, select Java Build Path

   and

    and then

   select

   select Libraries

   tab

    tab on the right.
   3.3.

   Double

    Double-

   click on 

   click JRE System Library [JavaSE-11].

   
   

   3.4.

    Click

    Click Installed JREs

   ... and

    and check if Java 11 is available here.

   Note
   If there is no Java 11, add it. Java 11 version must be added,

   as

   because later versions (e.g. 17) are not supported by our tool.

   3.5.

   Click

   Click Apply and Close.
   3.6.

    Select

    Select Execution environment

   " checkbox,

    check box and in the combo box, select JavaSE-11

   in the combo box and click Environments... button

   .
   3.7. Click Environments button.
   3.

   7. Select

   8. In the Execution Environments list, select JavaSE-11

   in the Execution Environments list and Java 11 in the "Compatible JREs" list

    and in the Compatible JREs list, select Java 11.
   3.

   8

   9.

   Click

    Click Apply and Close

   and

    and then Finish

   buttons

    buttons.
   3.

   9

   10.

    Select

    Select Order and Export

   tab

    tab,

   click

   click Select All

   button

    button to select all check boxes

   , close dialog by clicking

   .
   3.11. Click Apply and Close

   button

   .
   

Eclipse Workspace is ready for the source code development and running/debugging.

To use one of the prepared launch configurations

• On the main menu, click Run > Run Configurations... (or Debug Configurations...). The Run Configurations dialog opens.

• MagicDraw with all plugins launches MagicDraw (or other modeling tool) with plugins available in the IDE workspace namely My Plugin 1 and My Plugin 2.
• My Commandline launches batch mode tool My Commandline.
• MyPlugin1JUnit<n>Test launches sample JUnit<n> test.