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What technologies are used in Workbench? |
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Workbench is built on Mathematica and Eclipse. It makes heavy use of J/Link, the Mathematica toolkit that provides
transparent communication between Mathematica and Java.
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What is Eclipse? |
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Eclipse is a
leading platform for IDE development. Eclipse is platform independent
and is built around an extension mechanism involving modules known as
plugins.
Eclipse has a very large number of free and commercial plugins
available for carrying out a variety of different tasks. This includes
support for languages such as Java, C, C++, and Fortran, as well as
support for such things as HTML, XML, UML, and many web
technologies. More information on available plugins is
at the Eclipse Plugin Resource Center.
Many companies have built technology based on Eclipse, including
IBM, Nokia, Borland, and Macromedia.
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How does Workbench use Eclipse?
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Wolfram Workbench is a modified version of Eclipse that contains a number of plugins for working with Mathematica and other Wolfram technologies.
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How does the Eclipse version supplied as part
of Workbench compare to standard Eclipse? |
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The version
of Eclipse has been modified to alter various icons and remove some
material such as extended documentation. The core is very much standard Eclipse.
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Can I use standard Eclipse to run Workbench plugins?
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Yes, you can install Workbench plugins into different
versions of Eclipse. To get just the plugins, when choosing your Workbench download platform simply select the "Eclipse"
option.
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Which Eclipse plugins are compatible with Workbench? |
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Eclipse has a very large number of free and commercial plugins
available for carrying out a variety of different tasks. This includes
support for languages such as Java, C, C++, and Fortran, as well as
support for such things as HTML, XML, UML, and many web
technologies. More information on available plugins is at the Eclipse
Plugin Resource Center.
In almost all cases these plugins are compatible with Workbench.
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With what Wolfram products can I use Workbench? |
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Workbench works with Mathematica, gridMathematica, Mathematica Personal Grid
Edition, webMathematica, Mathematica for the
Classroom, and Mathematica for Students.
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To run Workbench, do I need to install anything else? |
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To use Workbench you need to have installed Mathematica, or any
other Workbench-compatible Wolfram product. If you have that,
then when you install Workbench you will have everything that
is required.
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If I am running a multi-language development project, can I
use Workbench to manage the workflow?
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Yes, Workbench can be very useful for multi-language
development. This is because of the wide range of plugins available for Eclipse.
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Why has Workbench been built on Eclipse? |
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The main benefit of building Workbench on top of
Eclipse is that we have gained a very large feature
set with much less effort than if we had written everything
from scratch.
In addition, the fact that we can build in support for
other features and languages is an important bonus.
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What platforms are supported? |
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At present we have validated Windows, Mac OS X (Universal), and Linux. However,
we will be validating more so that Workbench can support all Mathematica
platforms.
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What versions of Mathematica are supported by
Workbench?
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Workbench supports Mathematica 5.2 and higher, as well as
other Wolfram products that include those versions
of Mathematica.
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