Installing Repast in the Eclipse IDE

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Installing Repast in the Eclipse IDE

• Charlie Gieseler
• 6/28/04

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Preliminary Downloads

• Download and install latest release version of
  Eclipse from http//eclipse.org
• Download and install the latest version of RePast
  from http//repast.sourceforge.net
• Download the GridIPD example code .zip file from
  http//www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/gov2015/Tutori
  al/

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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 RePasts lib
  directory and can be added to the project in the
  same manner as RePast.

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Project Properties

• Open the existing project
• Go to Project-gtProperties
• 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.

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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

RePast jar location
RePastHome/lib/repast.jar
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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

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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-gtRun..

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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

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GridIPD Runs in RePast