Requirements

First of all, you will need to have a running Eclipse IDE v3.2+.

Nb: Unfortunately, because of a bug, Alveole Studio Eclipse plugin v0.1.0 does not work properly on Eclipse v3.2. You will need at least Eclipse 3.3. For Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede, you will need plugin version 0.2.3+.

Depending upon which distro you use, you will need to add the following plugins:

• For eclipse-java-europa-winter (Eclipse 3.3 IDE for Java Developers):
  • WTP / Web Standard Tools WST Project,
  • WTP / J2ee Standard Tools (JST) Project,
  • EMF SDK / Eclipse Modelling Framework Codegen (org.eclipse.emf.codegen)
• For eclipse-jee-europa-* (Eclipse 3.3 IDE for Java EE Developers): All requirements are already included (just need to install Alveole Studio MVC Web Project).
• For eclipse-SDK-* (Eclipse Classic 3.3):
  • Web And J2EE Dev / Web Standard Tools (WST)
  • Models And Model Dev / XML Schema Infoset Model XSD (=WST dependency)
  • Graphical Editor And Fwk / Graphical Editing Framework (=WST dependency)
  • Enabling features / Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) * (=WST dependency)
  • Enabling features / XSD Schema Infoset Model (=WST dependency)
  • Web And J2EE Dev / J2ee Standard Tools (JST) Project,
  • Models And Model Dev / Eclipe Modelling Framework Runtime (EMF) (=JST dependency)

Installing with update site

This is the simplest way to install this plugin.

Update site URL is http://mvcwebproject.sourceforge.net/update/

Configuring Alveole Studio MVC Web Project Update Site

Then open your eclipse (with a user having sufficient privileges to update eclipse). Open Help/Software updates/Find and Install...

Then choose "Software updates":

Then click "Add site":

For site URL enter "http://mvcwebproject.sourceforge.net/update/".

Select Alveole Studio Struts2 Editor Feature.

Perform installation

Then click install.

Eclipse performs a few resolution steps.

Click finish.

Eclipse downloads and install plugin.

Finally, restart eclipse. Congratulations ! You are ready to play with Alveole Studio plugin !

Installing manually

If for any reason you want to install plugin manually, go to sourceforge download page and download archive file "mvcwebproject-0.2.2.jar".

Note that there are two files available for download:

• mvcwebproject-0.2.2.jar, is the plugin for manual installation - download this ,
• MVCWebProjectSiteUpdate-0.2.2.zip is the update site archive for automatic installation.

Drop mvcwebproject-0.2.2.jar inside your plugins directory, and start:

  eclipse -clean

This should install the plugin - but not its dependencies - so it may not work. Note that this method does not resolve plugin dependencies. Prefer using the automatic installation mode.

Installing from sources

You can download source code from SVN repository:

svn co https://mvcwebproject.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mvcwebproject mvcwebproject

More information about SVN here .

To compile plugin, you will need Maven 2, and eclipse IDE 3.x:

• Go to AlveoleWebDesigner sub-project and enter "compile" directory
• edit build.properties and set path to your eclipse home
• run "mvn install". This produces a mvcwebproject-[version].jar in target directory
• copy the jar file to your eclipse plugins directory and restart eclipse (with -clean option).