The Emerald Distributed Programming Language


This is the homepage of the Emerald Distributed Programming Language. The project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/emeraldlanguage. Emerald is in the process of being moved to an open source base hosted here on sourceforge.net and therefore there is not much content on this website yet.

Emerald is available as a download on the download page here.
Installation instructions
Installation instructions can be found in the README file and generic instructions in the INSTALL file in the package. Usage instructions and such can be found in the Doc directory, also in the package (the installation instructions in the Doc directory is somewhat deprecated though, and should be ignored).

Eclipse plugin

We have developed a plugin for Eclipse 3.0, which is available as a download on the download page here. We also have an update site at http://emeraldlanguage.sourceforge.net/updates/ which can be used from within eclipse.
Installation instructions
A manual i wrote as part of a paper is available in html here. Or as a pdf here.

If you choose to download the plugin then you have to unpack the file in your eclipse directory, and restart your eclipse.

If you choose to use the update site at http://emeraldlanguage.sourceforge.net/updates/ you should follow these steps:
  1. Start up eclipse
  2. Push Help->Software Updates->Find and Install..
  3. Choose 'Search for new features to install' and push Next
  4. Push 'New Remote Site'
  5. Enter a name for the site (eg. Emerald Language Plugin), and write http://emeraldlanguage.sourceforge.net/updates/ in the URL
  6. Select the newly created remote site (It will connect to the site and a new menu item called Emerald Language Plugin will appear. Make sure this is checked also). Push Next
  7. Choose the Emerald Plugin feature (dk.diku.emerald.feature) and click Next
  8. Push 'i accept the terms in the license agreement' and click Next
  9. Optionally choose install location, else just push Finish
  10. The installation proces will start and you will be asked if you wish to install the plugin. Just click Install.
  11. Finally restart your eclipse when you are asked

To get started you should set up appropriate values in the preferences->Emerald item.At the moment you need to copy&paste in you PATH variable from the command-line. I'm working on removing the necessity to do that.
Then you could push the 'New..' and create a new emerald project or file.

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