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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 - Mac OS X

Prerequisites

CloverETL requires Mac OS capable of running 64-bit Java 6. A JDK is required to run Java transformations but most of the graphs will run with JRE.

Step 1

Download CloverETL bundled with the Eclipse development platform (DMG). You need to be signed in to either your user or customer account to download it.

Step 2

When the download is finished, double-click to open the DMG image. You should see the new image in your Devices:
DMG image on Mac OS X

Copy CloverETL Designer to Applications. Now you can run it with the double click. During the first start, you will be ask if you want to open it, as the application was downloaded from the Internet.

Step 3

After clicking "Open", 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 and you can start working.
 

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 Mac OS X

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).