Installing the RB plugins

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The RBPlugin has been tested on eclipse-SDK-3.1M2-win32 for windows XP. Therefore you will need to download eclipse eclipse-SDK-3.1M2-win32 from___________

You will need Java1.4. If you are going to try this plugin with Java1.5 features you will need Java1.5.

This version of the plugin is platform dependent and will work properly only on Windows 2000 because of a font that it uses for showing unicode  for preview. This will cease to be a limitation later. Its been tested on WindowsXP

Then one needs the following plugins which may be dowloaded and extracted from the zip file __________

  1. com.raghuraman.rb.doc_0.0.1
  2. com.raghuraman.eclipse.tools_0.0.1
  3. com.raghuraman.rb_0.0.1
  4. com.raghuraman.wrapper_0.0.1
  5. org.apache.xerces_0.0.1 

The above  plugins need to be copied into the plugins directory of eclipse.

Start the plugin with the following command

eclipse.exe -data myworkspace -vm C:\jdk1.5.0\bin\javaw from a batch file that you can create  inside the same directory as eclipse.exe.

You can also start it by creating a shortcut. See more instructions for starting the eclipse if needed.

After it has started you should see the following screen.

Do this Help>About Eclipse Platform>Plugin Details

Srolling down on the opening screen should show the above mentioned plugins somewhere at the bottom of the screen

Close the dialog boxes.

After this proceed to creating Rb files.