[Swarm-Support] Re: Support Digest, Vol 4, Issue 14

[Rob McDermott]

Hi
I program SWARM using Eclipse.
Basically, Eclipse is simply the tool with which I write SWARM Java 
classes to implement my agents and stuff.

1. Create a project in Eclipse
2. Add the library swarm.jar to your build path. On my system, this is 
c:\Swarm-2.2\share\swarm\swarm.jar

You're not going to be able to RUN the model from within Eclipse, 
because it runs under cygwin... so here's what I do:
- For unit testing, I had to write a couple of Java classes to implement 
the SWARM classes that were'nt available to me under Eclipse (such as a 
Grid2D) but that I really needed to test my agents. I wrote a simple 
test class that instantiates the model and puts it through various test 
cases.
- Once I've got my model programmed in Java, I compile it to native code 
using gcj. I do this from cygwin, using a simple script, because the 
command line is kinda long. I do this to get around the problem with 
Java SWARM's not initialising properly.
- Then, I run the model... You can run it either from in cygwin, or from 
windows - as long as you have cygwin installed correctly it will run.

Probably the build path is your problem, but if you have any other 
questions let me know.
regards
Rob McDermott