Installation Guide

You have three options in installing the CloverETL Designer. The easiest and fastest way is to download CloverETL bundled with the Eclipse development platform. The other two options are installing CloverETL as an Eclipse plugin. The plugin can be installed either via online update site or you can download the plugin and install it offline.

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Full Installation - Windows

Prerequisites

CloverETL requires Java 1.6. A JDK is required to run Java transformations but most of the graphs will run with JRE. You can install JDK during the installation of CloverETL Designer (see Step 2).

Step 1

Download CloverETL installer. You need to be signed in to either your user or customer account to download it.

Step 2

When the download is finished, run the downloaded installer. Follow the wizard instructions to install CloverETL. In the 4th step of the Installation Wizard, you can choose if you want to install JDK or not. If you have Java 1.6 installed on your computer, you can change the default option.

You can start CloverETL Designer in the last step of the Installation Wizard if you leave the "Run CloverETL Designer" button checked or you can start it from the Start menu.

Step 3

After the first start of CloverETL Designer, you will be prompted to select a location for your workspace. This is the directory where your CloverETL projects will be stored.

Step 4

When you select the location, CloverETL Designer will open.

Step 5

If you have the full version (not Community) of CloverETL Designer, you will need to activate it by providing a license key.

Step 6

Check your configuration: Window → Preferences → Java → Installed JREs:
Preferences window on Windows

Java 1.6 (JDK or JRE) should be visible and checked. If you don't see it, add it and check for usage (see Setting Java Runtime Environment).

Data integration software and ETL tools provided by the CloverETL platform offer solutions for such data management tasks such as data integration, data migration, or data quality. CloverETL is a vital part of such enterprise solutions as data warehousing, business intelligence (BI) or master data management (MDM). CloverETL’s flagship applications are CloverETL Designer and Server. CloverETL Designer is a visual data transformation designer that helps define data flows and transformations in a quick, visual, and intuitive way. CloverETL Server is an enterprise ETL runtime environment. It offers a set of enterprise features such as automation, monitoring, user management, real-time ETL, clustering, or cloud data integration.