Installation

In order to install DB Schema Viewer you need Eclipse and its graphical framework GEF on your computer.

• Eclipse is avaliable at http://www.eclipse.org
• GEF at http://www.eclipse.org/gef

To install DB Schema Viewer you simply need to unzip the distribution file in you ECLIPSE-HOME. Check in the ECLIPSE-HOME/plugin folder that it.unimib.disco.dbschemaviewer_1.0.0 has been unzipped correctly.
If Eclipse was running during the previous operation you need to restart it. DB Schema Viewer should be loaded on the next start. You can check that it has been loaded with no error going to

Help $>$ About Eclipse Platform $>$ Plug-in Details

DB Schema Viewer is ready to be used whether it is on the plug-in list, as you can see in figure 2.1.

DB Schema Viewer has been tested under:

• OS
  • Windows XP
  • Debian GNU/Linux
• Java SDK
  • J2SE 1.4.2
  • J2SE 5.0
• Eclipse
  • v. 3.0.0
  • v. 3.0.1
  • v. 3.0.2
• GEF
  • v. 3.0.1
• MySQL
  • v. 4.0
  • v. 5.0
• PostgreSQL
  • v. 7.4
• Firebird
  • v. 1.5