Installing Repast in the Eclipse IDE Charlie Gieseler 6/28/04

Preliminary Downloads Download and install latest release version of Eclipse from Download and install the latest version of RePast from Download the GridIPD example code.zip file from 015/Tutorial/ 015/Tutorial/ 015/Tutorial/

Installing RePast in an Existing Project First you will need an existing project Please refer to the Eclipse documentation or other Eclipse tutorials full details of setting up a new project with existing resources Here we will use the GridIPD project Note: GridIPD requires the cern.jet.random in the “colt” library. This is located in RePast’s lib directory and can be added to the project in the same manner as RePast.

Project Properties Open the existing project Go to Project->Properties The Properties dialog will popup In the left pane, select “Java Build Path”. The “Java Build Path” pane will appear to the right. Make sure the “Libraries” tab is selected.

Adding the RePast library to the Build Path Click the “Add External Library” button Use the browser window to locate the RePast jar file. Click “Open” [RePastHome]/lib/repast.jar RePast jar location

Verifying RePast library was added If the RePast library was added to the project it will now show in the library listing. Now click “OK” to complete the properties setup

Running the project with RePast To run GridIPD in Eclipse, first add the colt library to the build path as done with RePast. Go to Run->Run..

Running the project with RePast cont. Look in the “Configurations” pane Under “Java Applications” select the class to run. In this case it is Model for the Model.java class. Click the “Run” button

GridIPD Runs in RePast