JESS: installing JessDE
Hi It's been more than a month for me trying frustaingly to install the JessDE on Eclipse but they all failed. To install JessDE, I've downloaded both the Eclipse Classic 3.4 and the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from the Eclipse website, then saved them both on my desktop, installed and ran Eclipse. After exitting Eclipse, for each Eclipse version, I coppied all the files from Jess70/eclipse and pasted in my Desktop/eclipse file, then extracted them. When I checked the Desktop/eclipse/plugins, but the gov.sandia.jess_7.0.0 did not appear, nor did any of the other gov.sandia... files exist under their corresponding directories. Therefore, no such Jess logo appeared in the EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. I even tried transferring the Jess files to their Eclipse directories manually but they still didn't show up in the Plugin Details under EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. Could anyone tell me where I'm wrong. Where is the top-level Eclipse installation directory meant to be? Is extracting a file equavalent to unzipping a file (unzip was not an option for the files, only extract was there)? Once Jess does function in Eclipse, how do we open/create a *.clp file in it? Thank you
Re: JESS: installing JessDE
Hi Seyed, I've personally not tried JESS in 3.4 yet. (it get's officially released today), however i wouldn't expect any major problems due to backward compatibility. Please could you go into help-software updates - manage configuration. You should have 3 buttons, that show various groups in the tree below. Make sure all three are on, especially the 3rd one, show disabled features. Now navigate the tree and see if you can find any reference to JESS. If it is there, check what issues jess has and report them to us for further advice, If you have no JESS entries, then the problem rests with where the plugins and features are put on your system. Close eclipse The base directory is eclipse (from what you have said, Desktop/Eclipse) and should contain a plugins and features directory as well as the eclipse binary. The jess download has a folder called eclipse, and in that there are 5 zip files. If you extract these 5 zip files to the one directory (say c:\temp\jess) you should find 2 folders. These two folders are plugins and features. Copy both folders to your eclipse directory (overwrite is ok, as it will merge old folders with new) Now run eclipse, and follow the same checks for the features... (remember to clean up your temp directory afterwards) Hope that helps. Gary seyed hossein wrote: Hi It's been more than a month for me trying frustaingly to install the JessDE on Eclipse but they all failed. To install JessDE, I've downloaded both the Eclipse Classic 3.4 and the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from the Eclipse website, then saved them both on my desktop, installed and ran Eclipse. After exitting Eclipse, for each Eclipse version, I coppied all the files from Jess70/eclipse and pasted in my Desktop/eclipse file, then extracted them. When I checked the Desktop/eclipse/plugins, but the gov.sandia.jess_7.0.0 did not appear, nor did any of the other gov.sandia... files exist under their corresponding directories. Therefore, no such Jess logo appeared in the EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. I even tried transferring the Jess files to their Eclipse directories manually but they still didn't show up in the Plugin Details under EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. Could anyone tell me where I'm wrong. Where is the top-level Eclipse installation directory meant to be? Is extracting a file equavalent to unzipping a file (unzip was not an option for the files, only extract was there)? Once Jess does function in Eclipse, how do we open/create a *.clp file in it? Thank you -- _ Gary Napier Alpha Lab Institute for Energy and Environment Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Strathclyde Royal College Building 204 George Street Glasgow G1 1XW e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 0141 548 2665 To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: JESS: installing JessDE
Hi Seyed, It's been more than a month for me trying frustaingly to install the JessDE on Eclipse but they all failed. Hers is another thing that you may want to try: You said that you installed Eclipse to the Windows Desktop. Typically, the DOS path to the desktop looks like: C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Desktop Now, historically there have been issues with running Eclipse from a directory which has spaces in its full path, especially its plugins. See http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.imp/msg00089.html For that reason, you might want to install Eclipse to C:\ or C:\Programs(but not C:\Program Files where program code would normally go). In any case, it's probably not a good idea to install application code to your desktop for Windows security reasons. The Documents and Settings folder is a high priority target of many viruses, and it's usually public so that apps can access it. For example, you can see that cookies get written there. Hope this helps, too! Cheers, Jason On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Gary Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Seyed, I've personally not tried JESS in 3.4 yet. (it get's officially released today), however i wouldn't expect any major problems due to backward compatibility. Please could you go into help-software updates - manage configuration. You should have 3 buttons, that show various groups in the tree below. Make sure all three are on, especially the 3rd one, show disabled features. Now navigate the tree and see if you can find any reference to JESS. If it is there, check what issues jess has and report them to us for further advice, If you have no JESS entries, then the problem rests with where the plugins and features are put on your system. Close eclipse The base directory is eclipse (from what you have said, Desktop/Eclipse) and should contain a plugins and features directory as well as the eclipse binary. The jess download has a folder called eclipse, and in that there are 5 zip files. If you extract these 5 zip files to the one directory (say c:\temp\jess) you should find 2 folders. These two folders are plugins and features. Copy both folders to your eclipse directory (overwrite is ok, as it will merge old folders with new) Now run eclipse, and follow the same checks for the features... (remember to clean up your temp directory afterwards) Hope that helps. Gary seyed hossein wrote: Hi It's been more than a month for me trying frustaingly to install the JessDE on Eclipse but they all failed. To install JessDE, I've downloaded both the Eclipse Classic 3.4 and the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers from the Eclipse website, then saved them both on my desktop, installed and ran Eclipse. After exitting Eclipse, for each Eclipse version, I coppied all the files from Jess70/eclipse and pasted in my Desktop/eclipse file, then extracted them. When I checked the Desktop/eclipse/plugins, but the gov.sandia.jess_7.0.0 did not appear, nor did any of the other gov.sandia... files exist under their corresponding directories. Therefore, no such Jess logo appeared in the EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. I even tried transferring the Jess files to their Eclipse directories manually but they still didn't show up in the Plugin Details under EclipseHelpAbout Eclipse Platform. Could anyone tell me where I'm wrong. Where is the top-level Eclipse installation directory meant to be? Is extracting a file equavalent to unzipping a file (unzip was not an option for the files, only extract was there)? Once Jess does function in Eclipse, how do we open/create a *.clp file in it? Thank you -- _ Gary Napier Alpha Lab Institute for Energy and Environment Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Strathclyde Royal College Building 204 George Street Glasgow G1 1XW e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 0141 548 2665 To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- Jason Morris Morris Technical Solutions LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] (517) 304-5883
