Fan-In pluglet setup instructions

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

  1. Click Window > Customize Perspective. In the Customize Perspective window, click the Shortcuts tab and be sure New is specified in the Submenus list.
  2. 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.
  3. Click the Commands tab. In the Available command groups list, select Pluglets and Modeling
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  5. 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.

  1. On the Fan-In pluglet overview page, click Import.
  2. 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.

  1. Run the pluglet for the first time by selecting the pluglet sample FanInMetric.java in the Model Explorer.
  2. Click Run > Internal Tools > Run As > Pluglet.
  3. 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.