Teiid Designer was designed and built as a set of Eclipse plugins written in Java.

The minimum runtime environment for Designer is:

• Java 1.6
• Eclipse 3.7 or greater (Teiid Designer 8.0 is targeted at Eclipse 4.2 environment)

Teiid Designer 8.0 can be installed into Eclipse from either:

• an update site archive dowloaded from:  http://download.jboss.org/teiid/designer/8.0/teiid-designer-8.0.0.Final-v20121212-1505-H1987.zip
• update site URL located at: http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/juno/soa-tooling/teiiddesigner/8.0.0.Final/

Step 1: Install Eclipse IDE.

Step 2: Install Designer into your Eclipse environment

    Option A: Update Site Archive

• Download Teiid Designer 8.0 onto your local file system:    http://download.jboss.org/teiid/designer/8.0/teiid-designer-8.0.0.Final-v20121212-1505-H1987.zip
• Select Help > Install New Software... action from main menu
• Select Add ... button
• Enter unique name (example: Teiid Designer 8.0), select Archive... option to browse and select zip file you just downloaded. Select OK.
• Open the new update site in the tree and select the Data Services feature.
• Expand the tree and de-select the "Teiid Designer Test" feature.
• Select Next >
  • If additional plugins are required, a license agreement may be displayed. If so, select "I accept..." and click Finish
• When installation is complete you will be prompted to re-launch Eclipse to insure the new features are fully operational.

    Option B: Update Site URL

• Select Help > Install New Software... action from main menu
• Select Available Software tab
• Enter the URL:  http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/juno/soa-tooling/teiddesigner/8.0.0.Final/ in the "Work with" entry field and hit Enter.
• Select the Data Services feature.
• Expand the tree and de-select the "Teiid Designer Test" feature.
• Select Install... button.
• Select Next >
  • If additional plugins are required, a license agreement may be displayed. If so, select "I accept..." and click Finish
• When installation is complete you will be prompted to re-launch Eclipse to insure the new features are fully operational.