Installing Isight Developer

The installation of Isight Developer involves extracting files included with your Isight installation and updating your Eclipse preferences for Isight-specific settings.

This task shows you how to:

Extract the Files

After you have installed Isight, you need to extract Isight Developer files to the system running Eclipse.

  1. Verify that you have a supported version of Eclipse and Isight installed. Eclipse versions Ganymede (3.4.x) and Galileo (3.5.x) are supported.
  2. Navigate to the following directory: <Isight_install_directory>/<operating_system>reffiles/IsightDeveloper/templates
  3. If necessary, copy the com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper-1.0.0.zip file to the system running Eclipse.
  4. Unzip the com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper-1.0.0.zip file in the top level of the directory containing your Eclipse installation directory. For example, if you installed Eclipse in C:\Eclipse, you should extract the zip file to the top level of your C: drive (C:\).
  5. Verify that the following files have been added to your Eclipse plugins directory:

    • com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper.common_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx.jar
    • com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper.editor_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx.jar
    • com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper.export_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx.jar
    • com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper.perspective_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx.jar
    • com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper.project_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx.jar

  6. Verify that the following subdirectory has been added to your Eclipse features directory: com.simulia.ide.isightdeveloper_1.0.0.xxxxxxxxxxxx
    You are now ready to set your Eclipse preferences.

Set Your Eclipse Preferences

You need to update your Eclipse preferences for Isight-specific settings before creating any Isight extensions.

  1. Start Eclipse.
  2. From the main Eclipse interface, click Windows -> Preferences.

    The Preferences dialog box appears.

  3. Expand the SIMULIA node on the left side of the dialog box, and click Isight.
  4. Specify the release of Isight that you want to use in the Isight installation text box. You can type the path to the installation directly in this text box or navigate to it using Browse. You need to specify or select the “release number” level of the installation directory.

    For example, C:\SIMULIA\Isight\2018\<operating_system>

  5. From the Isight JVM list, select the JVM that you want to use. If only one version is available, it is selected automatically.
  6. In the Standard package text box, define the default package to use in all projects. For example, com.simulia.component.
  7. Click OK.

    Your preferences are saved, and you are returned to the main Eclipse interface.

  8. From the main Eclipse interface, click Windows -> Preferences.

    The Preferences dialog box appears.

  9. Expand the Java node on the left side of the dialog box, and click Installed JREs.

    If you expand the Java node before you apply the SIMULIA/Isight settings (as described above), these custom settings are discarded and you have to re-specify them.

  10. In the Installed JREs list on the right side of the dialog box, verify that the following entry appears:

    Name ISIGHT_JVM
    Location <Isight_install_directory>\<operating_system>\code\jre\currentjre

  11. Click OK.

    You are returned to the main Eclipse interface. Eclipse is now ready for use as an Isight extension development environment.