I’ve noticed that this blog has been getting numerous hits pertaining to palo and mac related searches. Indeed many of these are related to searches such as “Jpalo Mac”
I can only assume that there are people out there eager to use JPalo on the mac. Well the good news is that this is possible and you have all the same functionality as anyone else. Unfortunatley Tensegrity Haven’t got a download on their website for an eclipse RCP. I can only assume this is because they don’t a mac in their office and that since SWT uses native GUI controls they couldn’t test a package and so weren’t willing to publish something which might not work.
However fear not it’s no big deal to get the eclipse addin working all youneed to do is visit eclipse.org and download a copy eclipse. This will give you a full blown eclipse development environment, but more importantly the application will contain the native SWT jars for the mac. Next goto the tensegriy site and download either a windows or linux version of the eclipse client. Within there you need to copy the folders within the plugin sections to the plugins folder of the version of eclipse you downloaded.
When you start eclipse you need to change the perspective to Palo Client or Palo admin and your good to go. Slicing and dicing cubes, adding users and groups and many other such tasks are now easily accomplished.
In fact I hope to produce a screencast in the next few days which shows a palo server running on the mac, a model creating using a mindmap and then an iterative agile development cycle using the JPalo RCP and the mindmap to rapidly revise the model.
If anyone has questions on eclipse and jpalo give me a shout.
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