Hardware and software requirements

Requirements

To install and run MDT Professional Edition your computer has to comply with some requirements.

Hardware requirements

MDT Professional Edition is intended to be run on Intel IA32, 100% compatible processors, under Windows 2000 or higher operating system.
We recommend the following minimum hardware characteristics:

processor: 1.5 GHz
RAM: 512 MB
free HDD size: 1 GB

Software requirements

Note: Following requirements concerns plug-in installation package.

MDT Professional Edition requires some additional software to be installed:

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6 or higher
Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary version 3.5.x, 3.6.x or 3.7.x

See the following subsections for details.

Java

MDT Professional Edition requires Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java SE Development Kit (JDK) to be installed. If you do not intend to develop Java applications, the JRE is the right choice.
Current version of MDT Professional Edition requires at least Java SE 6 to be installed. Java SE can be downloaded from Java SE Downloads web page. Please follow Java Installation Instructions to install Java on your computer.

Eclipse

MDT Professional Edition requires Eclipse. Please use the 3.5, 3.6 or the latest 3.7 release. Eclipse can be downloaded from Eclipse Downloads web page.
According to your needs you can install:

Eclipse Platform Runtime Binary – this option is intended for Magik developers who plan only for Magik development
Eclipse SDK – for developers who, apart from Magik, work with Java, develop Eclipse Plug-ins. This version contains sources, user's and programmer's documentation of Eclipse
JDT Runtime Binary – for Magik developers who work with Java too

The aforementioned list does not contain all possible options.

Network requirements

To activate a license you will need connection to our HTTP License Server. Refer to Managing Licenses topic for more information.