Step Zero

Step Zero: Setting Up

The next step will take you through the entire development process of a Handly-based model. First, though, we need to set up the development environment for our running example.

Setting Up Eclipse

To use the examples, Eclipse IDE for Java and DSL Developers is required. You can find a build for your platform by visiting https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.

You also need to add Handly into the Eclipse installation. This can be done by installing all features from a Handly update site. Please visit the project's Downloads page to find the URL of the update site for the latest release of Handly.

ATTENTION: Due to bug 440457 Handly 0.1.x is not compatible with Xtext 2.7 or later. Please use Eclipse IDE for Java and DSL Developers Luna (4.4.0) or Kepler SR2 (4.3.2) with Handly 0.1.x.

Setting Up a Workspace

You may want to checkout example plug-in projects [*] from the Step Zero repository into your workspace to use them as a basis for further development while following along with instructions of the next step: Basic Model.

Note: In general, there is a separate sub-module repository hosting source code for a particular step of our running example. Each subsequent step takes the source code of the preceding step and adds some more functionality. In that way, you can always checkout the source code of the previous step and use it as a starting point for development of the current step's functionality.

_{[*] When importing example projects with the import wizard, don't select the option Search for nested projects}