Step by step guide to setup the plugin

1. Environment settings

• Ensure that the javac is in your systems path (e.g. c:\jdk1.3.1\bin for Windows based systems)
• Ensure that you have installed a JDK 1.3.x VM

2. Eclipse Preferences settings
(All these settings are done in the preferences dialog from Eclipse)

• Add the JDK1.3.x VM to the Installed VM's from Eclipse (Preferences > Java > Installed JREs)
• Add a new classpath variable "IONA_IPAS_LIB" pointing to the lib directory of your iPAS installation (e.g. c:\iportal\ipas3\lib) (Preferences > Java > Classpath Variables)
• Add a new classpath variable "JDK_HOME" pointing to the directory of your JDK 1.3.x installation (e.g. c:\jdk1.3.1). This value is used to access the tool.jar of the JDK. (Preferences > Java > Classpath Variables)
• Check the iPAS settings (Preferences > iPAS)

1) Defines the name of the Eclipse Java Project that defines the runtime classpath to be used for running the iPAS tools and iPAS itself. Default is "IONA IPas.

2) Here you can specify the name of the iPAS server you want to start, stop, deploy into, .... This value is typically specified using the -n option of the iPAS commandline commands.

3) Customize the iPAS commandline commands used by this plugin internally.

4) Define additional VM Arguments (e.g. System properties) used for starting the iPAS sever or clients.

3. Define the iPAS classpath

• Create a new Java Project called "IONA IPas" or the name you defined in the Eclipse preferences
• Define the classpath of the project created before. Add at least the iportal.jar and the tools.jar of your JDK installation. Use the previously define Classpath Variables to define the pathes to the jar files. At the end it should somehow look like the following screenshot:

So that's it. Now you can go on using the plugin. See the plugin documention to see how.