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And this does NOT refer to DCAEGEN2 which have a completely new setup/process and is getting released in the R1/Amsterdam Release.

Refer to DCAE MOD User Guide for latest

DCAE Controller Overview

Make sure your settings.xml includes the onap public repo for some snapshot jar downloads during the build.

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Since DCAE Controller/SOMF is build on top of EMF developement development is tightly tied to using Eclipse IDE with specific plugin installed. This section describe the process to setup a developement development Eclipse.

1. Install Neon.3 Java Developer Version http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/neon3
2. Install software from Neon update site
   1. Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment           3.12.2.v20161124-1400
   2. EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework Xcore SDK   1.4.0.v20160526-0606
3. Install software from Eclipse Market Place
   
   1. YEdit Feature     1.0.20.201509041456-RELEASE
4. Install Groovy from http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.6/
   1. Groovy-Eclipse Feature             2.9.2.xx-201703131833-e46
   2. Groovy-Eclipse M2E integration            2.9.2.xx-201703131833-e46
   3. Groovy Compiler 2.4 Feature  2.9.2.xx-201703131833-e46

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