Pre-requisites:

• Eclipse Europa Winter
• EMF 2.3.2 SDO SDK
• JESS 7.1
• [xmlBlaster 1.6.1] (http://www.xmlblaster.org/releases/xmlBlaster_REL_1_6_1.zip)
• MySQL Server 5.0

Steps:

First clone a copy of the arche-core repo.

git clone https://github.com/Arch-E/arche-core.git

Extract the Eclipse zip file on your computer (e.g. C:\eclipse). You will have a new folder named eclipse.

Extract the EMF zip file at the same place you extracted eclipse (e.g. C:\eclipse). It should add the plugin files needed.

Extract JESS on your computer (e.g. C:\Jess71p2) and extract the content of each archive file inside the eclipse folder of JESS into your Eclipse folder.

Extract xmlBlaster on your computer. (e.g. C:\xmlBlaster)

Install MySQL Server 5.0.

Login with root on your MySQL server and run the database creation script:

mysql> source C:/arche-core/arche_db.sql

Open Eclipse and Create an empty workspace.

Install Eclipse update:

• Go to Help > Software Updates > Find and Install.
• Select Search for new features to install.
• Select 'The Eclipse Project Updates' site.
• In the features list, select Eclipse 3.3.2 and Eclipse 3.3.2 patches.
• Restart Eclipse.

Import the content of your local repo into your eclipse workspace. Do not copy the projects in your workspace. Build All (Ctrl + B).

Make sure xmlBlaster is running by executing in a command-line:

cd path/to/xmlBlaster
java –jar lib/xmlBlaster.jar

Right-click the arche.ui project. Run As > Eclipse Application.

A new Eclipse instance should have started. Go to Window > Open Perspective > Other. Choose ArchE.

Please note that the arche-core doesn’t do much. You need to get at least one reasoning framework.