Chapter 26. ProActive Eclipse plugin

26.1. Overview

The main objective of this plugin is to facilitate the use of ProActive in the Eclipse environment. The plugin has three main purposes :

  • A ProActive guided Tour

  • ProActive Wizards

  • A ProActive editor

26.2. The Guided Tour

The aim of the guided tour is to provide a step by step explanation to the ProActive beginners.

This guided tour (that is actually eclipse cheat sheet) purposes :

  • To Explain ProActive to beginners

  • To make interactions with the user with simple situations

  • To Show the important points

26.3. Wizards

These wizards will guide developpers to make complex operations with ProActive, such as installation, integration , configuration or execution. We have created 4 wizards :

  1. a ProActive installation wizard

  2. a wizard that create applications using ProActive

  3. an active object creation wizard

  4. a configuration and execution wizard

26.4. The ProActive Editor

This editor checks coding rules. It informs the developper of error concerning ProActive in his classes and can resolve some of these errors.