Chapter 13. JamaicaVM plug-in for Eclipse

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Eclipse integration
Getting Eclipse and the JamaicaVM plug-in
Additional resources

A plug-in is available for the open-source development environment Eclipse which integrates the JamaicaVM tools into a powerful IDE. This will make it easier for you to build and launch your own projects together with the JamaicaVM.

Eclipse integration

Virtual machines and class library

Currently the plug-in allows you to use JamaicaVM as a Java runtime environment in Eclipse, enabling you to develop and launch Java real time applications as easy and convienient as a normal Java programm.

The required virtual machine installations are managed automatically by the plug-in after usable JamaicaVM distributions have been configured.

Limited debugging support is contributed to the IDE, too.

Figure 13-1. A project with JamaicaVM as "Project JRE"

Jamaica Builder and Ant support

An Ant task is available to integrate Jamaica Builder in an Ant build enviroment. An editor contributed by the plugin helps you to create and edit the Ant build files using this Ant task. It is possible to run these build files outside of the IDE and easily add it to your source control system.

Figure 13-2. Jamaica Ant Editor editing an Ant script