The MCT project was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center for use in spaceflight mission operations, but is equally applicable to any other data monitoring and control application.

1. MCT is built using Maven (Java SE6), so start by downloading maven 2.2.1. In addition to the normal maven setup, you may need to add or enhance your MAVEN_OPTS environment variable with -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m.
2. Run mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Ddistribution from the platform-assembly directory
   1. If Maven complains about missing dependencies org.eclipse:equinox-osgi:jar:3.5.1 or org.eclipse:equinox-osgi-services:jar:3.2.0, download the JARs for the two plugins from http://archive.eclipse.org/equinox/drops/R-3.5.1-200909170800/index.php. Then follow the instructions Maven provides for installing the JARs.
3. The platform distribution can be found in the target directory

Work on MCT in Eclipse

Building a MySQL database

Using a Derby database