PCM 3.1
Palladio Component Model tool 3.1. PCM 3.1 is an outdated stable version, released 2009-07-15. This page includes an installation guide for the PCM 3.1 tools. See PCM Releases for the latest release.
What's new / Release Notes
- This is a maintenance release
- Due to changes in the meta-model, models of PCM 3.0 will not run in this release!
- Introduced SubSystems in the meta-model
- Support of Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) and Galileo (3.5)
- Improved stability
All-in-one "Drop"
PCM release, Version 3.1, Win32, including example workspace; for LQN support install LQN Solvers/Simulation (345 MB, 2009-07-15)
The drop is 
password-protected, but feel free to contact us if you are interested in it. To install a drop, simply unzip it. Please don't use the built-in ZIP functionality of Windows OS - it is known to cause problems with Eclipse ZIP files. Instead, try 7zip or alternatives.
Getting Started
We provide an example workspace for the PCM 3.1, which containts three different project examples. You can immediately start to analyse these three software models when using the example workspace.
- Getting started with the workspace
- Details on the example workspace
- Download the example workspace (ZIP, 850 KB) this example workspace is included in the drop.
Installation through update site
The 3.1 release of the PCM tool suite is based on Eclipse 3.4 SR2 (Ganymede). Execute the following steps to get started with the PCM tools:
- Install Java SE JDK 6
- Install Eclipse Modeling Tools 3.4 Download: official Eclipse download site - Eclipse Modeling Tools (includes Incubating components) (313 MB) alternatively use Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede including openArchitectureWare 4.3).
- Unzip to a folder of your choice
- Start Eclipse, let it create a workspace folder.
- Select Help -> Software Updates
- Select tab "Available Software"
- Click right-hand button "Add Site..."
- In the popup, enter URL "http://sdqweb.ipd.uka.de/eclipse/revisions/2009-07-15_PCM_stable_3.1/" (PCM 3.1 stable build update site)
- Click OK
- The same way: Add http://www.openarchitectureware.org/updatesite/milestone/
- Click "Manage Sites..."
- Tick the Ganymede releases site.
- Make sure the PCM and the openarchitectureware update sites are ticked.
- Click OK
- Back in the "Available Software" tab, tick the following packages:
- http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede > Enabling Features > Equinox Bundles
- http://www.openarchitectureware.org/updatesite/milestone/ > Uncategorized > openArchitectureWare core feature
- http://www.openarchitectureware.org/updatesite/milestone/ > Uncategorized > openArchitectureWare core plugins feature
- http://www.openarchitectureware.org/updatesite/milestone/ > Uncategorized > openArchitectureWare Stdlib feature
- http://sdqweb.ipd.uka.de/eclipse/revisions/2009-07-15_PCM_stable_3.1/ > 'Palladio Component Model Feature' and 'Palladio Component Model Diagramming Feature'
- Click "Install..."
- Click "Next", agree to the licenses, click "Finish".
- The necessary packages should now be downloaded and installed automatically on your system.
- Restart Eclipse when prompted
Installation Guide
Please find an overview on possible installations at PCM Installation. For other revisions see PCM Revisions.