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Creating TmL devices
Purpose and Target audience
This tutorial provides directions on creating devices:LINK_CONCEPT for TmL.
The target audience is anyone who wants to create a device:LINK_CONCEPT in TmL context.
Initial requirements
Here follows the steps necessary to prepare the environment to create TmL devices.
- Download and install the most recent Eclipse Europa (3.3) version. Click site for the eclipse download site.
- Connect to Eclipse CVS Repository and get the project set for Common utilities (see instructions here).
After that, your workspace should have a new project named org.eclipse.tml.common.utilities.
Creating the TmL plugin
- Create a new Plug-in project using the Eclipse New Project Wizard.
- If this plug-in will be contributed to TmL certify that it is using the naming conventions in Development Conventions and Guidelines or check with TmL committer the best name for that. (ex: org.eclipse.tml.sample)
- Fill provider, version and name and change the default name for activator to this format "<your-plugin-name>Plugin". (ex: SamplePlugin)
- Uncheck option to select a code template.
Configuring the plugin to work with the TmL framework
- Open plugin.xml in the dependencies tab
- Add org.eclipse.tml.common.utilities
