Repast Simphony External Analysis Tools

In addition to its advanced modeling facilities, Repast Simphony has integrated point-and-click connections to the following tools, which can be optionally downloaded and installed separately:

Repast Simphony Platform Development

Developers who wish to modify the Repast Simphony platform should download Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers 2021-06. Please note that Repast Simphony development requires this feature-complete edition and will not work with the limited Eclipse Java Edition. Then use the Eclipse Update Manager to install the following components.

  • From the default update site:
    • GMF SDK and Runtime
    • Xpand SDK
    • Eclipse XML Editors and Tools
  • From the Groovy Update Site (https://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e4.20):
    • Extra Groovy Compilers - You must install 3.0.x
    • Groovy-Eclipse
    • Uncategorized
In Eclipse Groovy settings make sure that the compiler is set to 3.0.x, and that in Eclipse Java Compiler Error/Warning settings, Forbidden access is changed to WARNING. The repast repository can be cloned from the links provided at the Simphony GitHub repository. The master branch contains the code in a distribution, tagged with the distribution's version number, while all the work is done the development branch. Import all the projects into Eclipse. Note that you may need to Refresh (F5) and / or clean (Project -> Clean) some or all of the projects for an error-free compile.