ATL/User Guide - Installation

Prerequisites

Java

• Download and install a JVM (JRE or JDK), if one is not already installed.
  • for ATL 2.0 or older, JDK 1.4 will work.
  • for ATL 3.0+, you need JDK 5.0 or later

Eclipse

• Download and install Eclipse.

EMF

• Install EMF.

Install ATL

There are two ways to install ATL:

• via update site
• via zip: see ATL Downloads. Once your zip is downloaded, just unpack it into
  • with Eclipse 3.3, 3.2: ~/eclipse/features/ and ~/eclipse/plugins/ folders
  • with Eclipse 3.4+: ~/eclipse/dropins/ folder

Finally, restart Eclipse.

The ATL SDK build enables to:

• consult documentation offline
• access ATL examples
• access the source code of installed ATL plugins

To install ATL from CVS, please refer to the Developer Guide.

See Also

• Introduction
• Overview of the Atlas Transformation Language
• The ATL Language
• The ATL Tools