Building in Eclipse

Install Eclipse

Any vanilla Eclipse can be used (version used: 20090920-1017)

Add the "plugin development" package:

• Help -> Install new software
  • Work with: select the current Eclipse release codename, e.g. Galileo, Helios (depending on installed Eclipse version)
    • General Purpose Tools
      • Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Install the necessary software and libraries

See dependencies for building GLOW.

Make a new Eclipse workbench

• Check out the repository in e.g. a dir 'glow'
• File -> Switch Workbench -> Other... -> Create a new Eclipse workbench in glow/workspace

Import necessary OSGI bundles as dependencies

You need this to develop Protege plugins. If you 'run' a plug-in project, Eclipse will start Protege. For more info, see [1].

Import Protege core bundles

File -> Import -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-ins and Fragments

• Directory: C:\Program Files\Protege\bundles
• Plug-ins and Fragments to Import: Select from all plug-ins
• Import as: binary projects
• Next
• Select:
  • org.protege.common
  • org.protege.editor.core.application
• Finish

Import Protege plug-ins

File -> Import -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-ins and Fragments

• Directory: C:\Program Files\Protege\plugins
• Plug-ins and Fragments to Import: Select from all plug-ins
• Import as: binary projects
• Next
• Select:
  • org.protege.editor.owl
  • org.semanticweb.owl.owlapi
  • jogl-osgi
  • prefuse-osgi
• Finish

NOTE:

• Remove 'org.glowvis' and 'org.glowvis.protege' plug-ins if they are present. We want to use them as real source projects and not as dependencies, because they are expected to change a lot.

Create the projects

org.glowvis

"org.glowvis" is the main library.

Go to: File -> New Project -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-in Project

First page:

• Project name: org.glowvis
• Location: checkout_dir\dev\org.glowvis (browse to the checked-out source directory)
• Target Platform: an OSGi framework: Equinox
• Next

Second page:

• Version: 1.0.0.qualifier
• Name: GLOW
• Don't generate activators
• Next

Third page:

• Don't use templates
• Finish

In the plug-in overview (main screen), go to the "build.properties" tab. Add your paths to Protege, JOGL, and Prefuse here. On Windows, make sure that backslashes are escaped. Example:

prefuse.home=C:\\Program Files\\prefuse-beta
jogl.home=C:\\Program Files\\JOGL
protege.home=C:\\Program Files\\Protege

Configure building. In the plug-in overview (main screen), go to the "Build" tab.

• Binary Build: select the following items and deselect the others:
  • META-INF
  • bin

org.glowvis.protege

"org.glowvis.protege" contains the Protege plugin.

Go to: File -> New Project -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-in Project

First page:

• Project name: org.glowvis.protege
• Target Platform: an OSGi framework: Equinox
• Next

Second page:

• Version: 1.0.0.qualifier
• Name: GLOW Protege plugin
• Don't generate activators
• Next

Third page:

• Don't use templates
• Finish

In the plug-in overview (main screen), go to the "build.properties" tab. Add your paths to Protege, JOGL, and Prefuse here. On Windows, make sure that backslashes are escaped. Example:

prefuse.home=C:\\Program Files\\prefuse-beta
jogl.home=C:\\Program Files\\JOGL
protege.home=C:\\Program Files\\Protege

Configure building. In the plug-in view (main screen), go to the "Build" tab.

• Binary Build: select the following items and deselect the others:
  • META-INF
  • bin
  • plugin.xml

Run the Protege plug-in from Eclipse

Open the org.glowvis.protege project.

Go to: Run -> Run (Ctrl-F11)

• Choose 'OSGi Framework'
• This should start Protege.

If the plug-in does not work and you receive an error message about 64 bit vs 32 bit architecture, it might be that Eclipse is using a JVM that does not match the installed JOGL libraries. In this case:

• Right click on the 'org.glowvis.protege' project in the Package Explorer
• go to Run/Debug Settings
• go to the Settings tab
• choose the correct JRE here, for example, a 64 bit JRE; if Eclipse does not know it, add it.

Build the plug-ins

• Right click on a project (e.g., 'org.glowvis.protege') in the Package Explorer
• Export
• Deployable plug-ins and fragments
• This produces a single .jar file for the component, which you can place in your Protege plugins directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\Protege\Plugins)