Target Platform

The target platform is a composition of OSGi bundles, i.e. Eclipse plug-ins and features. This is the platform on top of which Simantics and its applications are developed. It consists roughly of:

• selected parts of the Eclipse SDK (RCP, P2, JDT, PDE)
• Simantics SDK
• some third-party components

Target main platform maintainer is Tuukka Lehtonen

See Deploying plug-ins for the target platform for instructions on contributing to the target platform.

P2 deployment

P2 is a technology for provisioning software components for OSGi applications (e.g. anything Eclipse-based) originating from the Eclipse/Equinox project.

Simantics 1.4

1. Get the target platform definitions
   • Installing without SVN (recommended approach)
     • Select menu item File/New/Project to create a new empty project.
     • Download the following files and copy them into the new project:
       • http://www.simantics.org/download/1.4/simantics.target
       • http://www.simantics.org/download/1.4/simantics-https.target
     • For members, source code access is available through these alternative target definitions:
       • http://www.simantics.org/download/1.4/simantics-sdk.target
       • http://www.simantics.org/download/1.4/simantics-sdk-https.target
   • Installing through SVN
     • Checkout svn:target/branches/1.4 project from the Simantics SVN into your workspace.
2. Activate the target platform
   • Select menu item Window/Preferences from your Eclipse IDE.
   • Open the preference page Plug-in Development/Target Platform.
   • Activate the Simantics 1.4 target platform definition by checking it and pressing Apply. Wait until Eclipse finishes downloading. Press OK.
     • Members: Select Simantics SDK 1.4 for source code access instead.
     • This will make Eclipse download the target platform components from simantics.org and install them as your target platform.
     • If your internet access has an HTTP proxy that causes problems while downloading, try using Simantics 1.4 (HTTPS).
     • WARNING: 3.6 Eclipse IDE user interfaces have bugs that cause weird errors during target platform activation. These are mostly harmless. Use the Target Platform State view to browse the target platform contents.
3. Keep your platform up-to-date
   • Updating is as easy as reloading the target platform from Target Platform preference page. Select your target from the list and then press the Reload button.

Simantics TRUNK (head)

Same instructions apply as for #Simantics 1.4 with the following changes:

• Download the following files and copy them into the new project:
  • http://www.simantics.org/download/head/simantics.target
  • http://www.simantics.org/download/head/simantics-https.target
  • http://www.simantics.org/download/head/simantics-sdk.target
  • http://www.simantics.org/download/head/simantics-sdk-https.target

or

• Checkout svn:target/branches/head project from the Simantics SVN into your workspace.

Old deployment format

The following describe pre-simantics-1.4 target platform deployments. Starting from Simantics 1.4 we switch to P2-based distribution.

master

Description

Latest development version of the development version of the official Simantics target platform. This target platform is then branched and tagged for releases like 1.2, 1.3 and so on. Release branches are used for pre-release stabilisation which then turn into tags at the point of release.

Download

svn:target/master

Notes

svn:target/master/README.TXT

Usage

Just download the target platform, set it in your Eclipse IDE and possibly download your own existing plug-ins.

Change Log

Redmine, synced with trunks up to r18315

Simantics 1.2.1

Download

svn:target/branches/1.2.1

Notes

svn:target/branches/1.2.1/README.TXT

Usage

Just download the target platform, set it in your Eclipse IDE and possibly download your own existing plug-ins. Install the org.simantics.graph Graph Compiler version 1.0.3 into your IDE to develop ontologies.

Change Log

Redmine, built from SVN revision r18823

Simantics 1.2

Download

svn:target/branches/1.2

Notes

svn:target/branches/1.2/README.TXT

Usage

Just download the target platform, set it in your Eclipse IDE and possibly download your own existing plug-ins.

Change Log

Redmine, synced with trunks up to r18322

Deprecated

Simantics 1.1.0

Download

svn:target/tags/1.1.0

Notes

svn:target/tags/1.1.0/README.TXT

Usage

Just download the target platform, set it in your Eclipse IDE and possibly download your own existing plug-ins.

Change Log

Redmine, synced with trunks up to r17778

Simantics 1.0 (DEPRECATED)

Download: svn:target/branches/1.0

Notes:

• Steps to get the right code for the products to work:
  • Import 1.0 project set

Contents

Eclipse RCP

Equinox P2

Eclipse PDE

Apache Commons 1.0.0 (org.apache.commons)

Apache Lucene 3.0.0 (org.apache.lucene3)

iText 2.1.5 (com.lowagie.text)

Mylyn Wikitext (org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext)

HSQLDB (org.hsqldb)

JFree Common/Chart (1.0.16/1.0.13)

OPC-UA (org.opcfoundation.ua) (1.0.232.0)

org.simantics.data (0.6.2)

org.simantics.datatype (0.3.4)

org.simantics.g2d (0.9.2)

org.simantics.fastlz (1.0.0)

org.simantics.units (0.1.1)

Simantics 0.7 (DEPRECATED)

Download: svn:target/branches/0.7

Notes:

• Steps to get the right code for the products to work:
  • Import 0.7 project set

Contents

Eclipse RCP

Equinox P2

Eclipse PDE

Apache Commons 1.0.0 (org.apache.commons)

Apache Lucene 2.4.1 (org.apache.lucene)

iText 2.1.5 (com.lowagie.text)

Mylyn Wikitext (org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext)

HSQLDB (org.hsqldb)

JFree Common/Chart (1.0.16/1.0.13)

OPC-UA (org.opcfoundation.ua) (1.0.232.0)

org.simantics.data (0.6.2)

org.simantics.datatype (0.3.4)

org.simantics.db (0.7.1)

org.simantics.g2d (0.9.0)

org.simantics.fastlz (1.0.0)

org.simantics.units (0.1.1)