Welcome to Stylebase for Eclipse

Stylebase for Eclipse is a free software tool for maintaining a software architectural knowledge base. The knowledge base, aka. stylebase, can store diverse architectural models: architecture patterns, design patterns, reference architectures, macro and micro architectures, for example. The aim of the tool is to  increase information sharing and reuse of architectural models in  local and distributed development teams.

The tool is an extension to Eclipse, the most widely-used open source integrated development environment. The products run on all Eclipse-compatible operating systems, e.g. Linux, Windows and Mac.

• Check out Quick Start (HTML)
• Read User Guide (PDF)
• Have a look at our brochure
• Join our mailing list(s)
• Sent support request to katjah@tigris.org
• Contact "melian-77" on Skype
• See Advanced Installation Guide (PDF)
• See more documentation
• Report a bug or request a feature (you must be logged in)

1. Make you sure have Eclipse 3.1 or higher
2. Download latest release: stylebase-beta-1.1.zip (or see older releases)
3. Unzip the archive into your Eclipse home directory
4. Restart Eclipse
5. Select Window --> Show View --> Other --> Stylebase --> Stylebase
6. See user guides for more help

• Insert, update and delete models in the knowledge base
• Search models by various properties
• Download/upload patterns between a personal and shared repository
• Use locks to control concurrent access to the shared repository
• Import/export model's UML diagram in XML format and documentation in HTML format
• Integrate in Eclipse with your favorite UML modeling tool and/or HTML editor plug-in

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Stylebase for Eclipse is developed by a group of volunteers. You help is very welcome!

• Start by requesting a role as an Observer
• Report a bug or request a feature
• Check out the source code and see if you can fix your "favorite" problem yourself
• Email katjah@tigris.org to join our team

The development documentation is collectively maintained at http://eclipse-wiki.info (see Hosted Projects -> Stylebase for Eclipse). Communication happens mostly via Skype (admin's user id: "melian-77") and the mailing list dev@stylebase.tigris.org.

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