Getting started

When you have Eclipse, MetaEdit+ and the plugin installed, run Eclipse. In the Eclipse Workbench open the plugin with Window | Show view | Other | MetaEdit+ | Graph Browser.

The plugin tries to connect to the MetaEdit+ API server at startup. If it doesn't find any available connection, it will offer to launch MetaEdit+, start the API server, and login to the repository. This needs some paths and other parameters, which are stored in a 'default.mer' file that is saved in the root of the Eclipse workspace.

When running the plugin for the first time there is no 'default.mer' file. In this case the plugin tries to find and suggest the correct paths needed for launching MetaEdit+. It shows them to user who can edit and accept them by clicking 'Open MetaEdit+'. Accepting them will open MetaEdit+. If the plugin doesn't show any models after starting MetaEdit+ and its API, try clicking the 'Update Graph List' icon on the plugin's toolbar.

When running, the plugin will show the hierarchy of your models from MetaEdit+. The figure below shows the plugin listing the 'Digital watch' example models in Eclipse.

Since MetaEdit+ 5.0, the Digital Watch example has been updated to show the plugin's ability to import generated code into an Eclipse project. To see this:

• Select the top-level graph in the plugin.
• Choose Edit Graph Properties from the pop-up menu and set the Generation target platform to Java: Windows (or Java: Linux or Java: Mac OS X). If on Windows you could alternatively choose Java: API.
• Make sure the top-level graph is still selected, and press the plugin's Run Autobuild toolbar button.