Installing the Eclipse Feature

Installing STAN IDE is quick and easy. Choose your method…

A. Installing via Eclipse Marketplace

This is the recommended way to install STAN IDE. If you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed, you may just drag and drop the below Install button into your running Eclipse workspace.

Drag to your running Eclipse* workspace. *Requires Eclipse Marketplace Client

Select STAN IDE, follow the wizard, read and accept the license terms and restart Eclipse.

B. Installing via Update Site

If you do not have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed, you may install STAN via our Eclipse Update Site instead:

  1. From Eclipse, go to “Help - Install New Software…
  2. In the “Work with:” field, enter http://update.stan4j.com/ide

Select STAN IDE, follow the wizard, read and accept the license terms and restart Eclipse.

Installing the License Key (optional)

As a customer, you should have received a key per email. Copy the key and save it as file <eclipse_home>/stan.lic. Restart Eclipse.

Running your first Structure Analysis

In the Java Package Explorer, simply select packages, source folders and/or JAR files and choose “Run as… Structure Analysis” from the context menu.

After STAN has analyzed the selected code base, Eclipse will switch to the STAN Perspective, letting you explore your code structure.

Getting Help

STAN provides context sensitive help throughout the user interface: just press the F1/Help key. Select “Help > Help Contents” to browse the available help topics. For your convenience, you may also download the STAN IDE help in PDF format here.

For a brief overview of STAN’s concepts and features, please refer to our White Paper.

Avoiding Memory Problems

When analyzing large amounts of code, you may need to increase Eclipse’ available heap size to avoid an OutOfMemoryException. For example, the following command would run Eclipse with a heap size of 512MB:

eclipse [normal arguments] -vmargs -Xmx512M [more VM args]

You can also put the extra options in <eclipse_home>/eclipse.ini.