Using JViews products in Eclipse RCP applications

Installing the JViews runtime plug-in

JViews Maps for Defense provides jar files in the form of a pre-packaged Eclipse plug-in. The name of this package is ilog.views.eclipse.maps.runtime.

In order to install the JViews Eclipse plug-ins, you need to install from the local site as shown below.

For Eclipse 3.7 or newer:

  1. Launch your Eclipse installation.

  2. Go to Help/Software Updates and select the Available Software tab.

  3. Add a new local site: Click Add Site, then Local and specify the directory <installdir>/jviews-framework/tools/ilog.views.eclipse.update.site

  4. Select the features you want to install, and press the Install button.

In your applications, you need the ilog.views.eclipse.maps.defense.runtime plug-in and its dependencies:

  • ilog.views.eclipse.maps.runtime

  • ilog.views.eclipse.diagrammer.runtime (optional)

  • ilog.views.eclipse.framework.runtime

  • ilog.views.eclipse.utilities.runtime

Note that when editing the plugin.xml of a plug-in from within Eclipse, you only need to add the main plug-in ilog.views.eclipse.maps.defense.runtime:the dependencies are implied automatically.