Chapter 6. Installing Designer Into Eclipse 3.5

Eclipse 3.5 GALILEO allows you to install CloverETL Designer plugin directly into it. In the release 3.5 of Eclipse Platform, all required plugins are being installed during the installation of CloverETL Designer plugin. You do not need to install them separately and you only need to download and install CloverETL Designer.

Installing CloverETL Designer plugin into Eclipse 3.5 GALILEO release is actually adding of a new software. The HelpInstall New Software... wizard displays the list of software sites and items available for installation.

Available Software

Figure 6.1. Available Software


The Add... button enables to type the plugin location. The summary of CloverETL Designer online plugin update sites is provided in the following table.

Table 6.1. Sites with CloverETL

CloverETL ProductUpdate Site
CloverETL Desktop Edition designer.cloveretl.com/update
CloverETL Desktop Trial Edition designer.cloveretl.com/eval-update
CloverETL Community Edition designer.cloveretl.com/community-update

To get the access to the CloverETL plugin installation, you will be prompted to enter the username and password. In case the CloverETL Desktop Edition is desired, enter the license number for username, otherwise your user account login, i.e., your email address.

After checking the CloverETL item and accepting the terms of the license agreements in the next wizard, click Finish to allow the downloading and installing to proceed. Later on, click Yes when asked to restart Eclipse SDK for the changes to take effect.

To verify that the installation had finished successfully, go to HelpAbout Eclipse SDK. The CloverETL logo should be displayed.

CloverETL Has Been Installed

Figure 6.2. CloverETL Has Been Installed