InstallAnywhere 2008 Enterprise and standard edition provides support for collaboration with Eclipse IDE for creating developer installation manifests(DIM). DIM's play a key role while authoring huge installation projects. It allows a team of developers to work separately and independently. InstallAnywhere provides a plugin for Eclipse which can be added during InstallAnywehere's installation or it can be copied from directly to the plugins folder of Eclipse.
To start using InstallAnywhere collaboration project in Eclipse follow the steps mentioned below.
1. Click New project in Eclipse IDE and select IsntallaAnywhere collaboration project from the options.
2. This launches a new project creation wizard, enter the name of the project and click next.
3. The wizard then asks for DIM details, see the snapshot and fill the relevant details.
4. Now you are ready to author the DIM, double click on the DIM it will open it in the work space.
5. You will find various properties like General, Content, Variables and Dependencies tab at the bottom of the DIM descriptor inside workspace.
6. Click over the contents tab which will show contents of the DIM like File System, Environment Variable, Windows Registry and Database Servers. Right click on individual subsets to populate them individually with file sets, environment variables, registry entry etc.
I will be writing much more about DIM for InstallAnywhere collaboration with Eclipse, so stay tuned and keep visiting.
1 comment:
Our installer project is very huge one with about 110 Java custom code classes. We have single project for all the platforms and for various various scenarios of deployment.
Is there a way to debug my custom code in the installer runtime in eclipse IDE?
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