3.4 Problems with the Installation
You can check to see the set of installed plug-ins as follows:
  • Go to the “Help” menu, “About Eclipse Platform”.
  • The dialog box should show the Eclipse icon and the OSATE icon; see Figure 2.
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Figure 2: Eclipse/OSATE About Dialog.
  • You can find OSATE listed as a feature under “feature details”.  You can also find all OSATE plug-ins listed under plug-in details.
The EMF plug-ins and the OSATE plug-ins are recognized by Eclipse as “features”, i.e., a collection of plug-ins that make up an Eclipse application.  You can disable and enable installed features using the “Manage Configurations” service found under “Help” / “Software Updates”.
If you have an existing installation of Eclipse with your own or your company’s plug-ins, try the OSATE plug-ins in a separate Eclipse installation or disable your company plug-ins to determine whether there are conflicts between the two sets of plug-ins.
You may also try a clean reinstallation, but be sure you have kept your workspace outside the installation root folder (see “How to Manage Your Eclipse/OSATE Workspaces” in section 4.1.6).
3.4.1 Out of Memory Errors
If you runt OSATE and you get out-of-memory errors, the default virtual memory allocation for your Java Virtual Machine (JVM) may be too small.  You can change this allocation by opening the Properties of the shortcut to the executable through its context menu. The context menu can be brought up by selecting the shortcut and then right clicking on it.  In the Properties dialog box, select the shortcut panel.  In the “Target” field add the following after eclipse.exe: “- vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M”, where “512” can be higher if you have more RAM on your machine.
3.4.2 Getting Help
If all else fails, send us a note to tools@aadl.info.