This project takes approximately 10 minutes. Before you run the Fan-In pluglet sample, you must activate the pluglet projects and pluglets capability, and import the sample pluglet.
Activate the pluglet projects and pluglets capability
- Click Window > Customize Perspective. In the Customize Perspective window, click the Shortcuts tab and be sure New is specified in the Submenus list.
- In the Shortcut Categories list, select Pluglets to enable the related shortcuts. Make sure that the Pluglet and Pluglets Project check boxes are checked in the Shortcut list.
- Click the Commands tab. In the Available command groups list, select Pluglets and Modeling
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- Click OK.
To check if your perspective is customized, click File >New, and check if the Pluglets Project was added to the pull down menu.
Importing the sample
Before you run the sample, you must import it into your workspace.
- On the Fan-In pluglet overview page, click Import.
- In the Import Sample wizard, the Fan-In pluglet sample is filled in for you. Accept the default values and click Finish.
Running the Fan-In pluglet sample
Once you have imported this pluget sample into your workspace, you can run the pluglet.
- Run the pluglet for the first time by selecting the pluglet sample FanInMetric.java in the Model Explorer.
- Click Run > Internal Tools > Run As > Pluglet.
- Select your class. Click Run > Internal Tools > FanInMetric.
The pluglet runs, and the fan-in results are displayed in the Console window.
After you have run the Fan-In pluglet once, you can see that the Internal Tools menu is populated with a new menu item, FanInMetric pluglet.
You can use this menu item to run the pluglet and calculate the fan-in for a class.
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