Installing and Running ECOCLASS

Prerequisites

ECOCLASS 0.3 requires a Java Runtime Environment compatible to Java 1.5 of Sun Inc. (i.e. J2SE 5.0), which can be downloaded as Sun JRE 5.0. The Java version that comes with the GNU Compiler Collection (gcj) is currently (March 2006) only compatible with Java 1.2 and therefore not sufficient.

Please make sure that the directory containing the java executable has an entry in the search path ($PATH) of your computer.

Next Steps...
... for Windows
... for Linux

Windows-based systems

Installation

  1. Unpack the downloaded zip-archive to a directory of your choice. This will create a subdirectory "ecoclass", which will be referred to as "install directory" hereafter.
  2. Move the downloaded file 'database.jar' to the install directory.
  3. Done.

Running the program

  1. Run the file "eclipse.exe" which can be found in the install directory.
  2. A dialog box will pop up to let you select the working directory. By default this should point to a subdirectory of the install directory called "workspace".
  3. After a short while the workbench will appear. If the working directory is not empty, its content will be displayed in the upper left subwindow. If you are running ECOCLASS for the first time or in a new or empty working directory, you should first complete the workbench setup, before you continue to set up a new project.

Linux-based systems

Installation

  1. Unpack the downloaded zip-archive to a directory of your choice. This will create a subdirectory "ecoclass", which will be referred to as "install directory" hereafter.
  2. Move the downloaded file 'database.jar' to the install directory.
  3. Change (cd) into the install directory and run the file 'prepare_dir.sh'. In rare cases it might be necessary to set execution rights by issuing
       chmod 700 prepare_dir.sh
    or
       chmod u+rwx prepare_dir.sh
    before running the script.
  4. Done.

Running the program

  1. Run the file "eclipse" which can be found in the install directory.
  2. A dialog box will pop up to let you select the working directory. By default this should point to a subdirectory of the install directory called "workspace".
  3. After a short while the workbench will appear. If the working directory is not empty, its content will be displayed in the upper left subwindow. If you are running ECOCLASS for the first time or in a new or empty working directory, you should first complete the workbench setup, before you continue to set up a new project.