About Preclipse

Preclipse is an Eclipse plugin providing extensive support for the Java prevalence layer Prevayler during the development phase of prevalent systems.

In detail, the Preclipse plugin provides the following functions:

• Generating code for Prevalent Projects, Business Objects, and Transactions,
• Analysis of prevalent code to spot common mistakes,
• Support for prevalent systems with a new Eclipse project type,
• and Visualization of prevalent data.

To get your hands dirty right away, you may start with...

• Creating a new prevalent project by selecting "File/New/Project and select a new Preclipse project,
• Adding new Business Objects to your prevalent system by right-clicking the prevalent system class and selecting Prevayler/Add BO...
• Adding transactions to your BOs by right-clicking your BOs and selecting "Prevayler/Add transactions..."
• Enabling the analysis functions by selecting the analysis option in the project properties of your newly created prevalent project!
• Double-clicking snapshot and transactionLog-files to view their contents.

The documentation for Preclipse is available using the help system and/or the source code:

• A description of all the features of Preclipse is available in the online help; along with an example project setup.
• Additionally, the source code is documented as well, which is available via SourceForge.

The Preclipse plugin has been programmed and is being maintained by the Preclipse team. Find out more about us on www.preclipse.de.