Faktor-IPS Installation
This page contains all the information you need to install Faktor-IPS. The software can be downloaded via drag & drop of the “Eclipse Install button” in Eclipse or via the download button from the eclipse marketplace.
System
Requirements
Faktor-IPS is based on the widely used Eclipse development platform. If you do not have the latest version of Eclipse, download it on Eclipse.org and unpack the directory. Start Eclipse now and install Faktor-IPS.
Installation
There are two ways to install Faktor-IPS. Either directly via the Eclipse Marketplace or by manual installation.
Installation via Eclipse (recommended)
- Start the Update Manager: Help → Install New Software…
- Enter the address of the update site: https://update.faktorzehn.org/faktorips/latest and press Enter to confirm.
- If you also want to install popular add-ons such as m2e and product variants, you can also use https://update.faktorzehn.org/faktorips/ directly
- Select the Faktor-IPS features for installation.
- ⚠️ Make sure there is no check mark next to “Contact all update sites during install to find required software.”, as that may lead to unintended updates to other Eclipse plugins. For example, when installing Faktor-IPS on Eclipse 2024-06, the search would be changed in an incompatible way.
- Follow the steps of the Install Wizard and click “Next.”
Manual Installation
Select the download site for the desired version from the Archive. All plugin repositories, that is files containing “p2 repository” in the file name, are available on the download site. This plugin repository can be unpacked in the directory of your Eclipse installation. If the Eclipse installation does not contain a “dropins” directory, create a folder titled “dropins” directly under the “eclipse” directory.
Overview of the Faktor-IPS Features
Faktor-IPS consists of a collection of features, i.e. separately installable units, for Eclipse.
Feature-Name | Feature-ID | Description |
|---|---|---|
Faktor-IPS | org.faktorips.feature | Faktor-IPS in English |
Faktor-IPS German | org.faktorips.feature.nl1 | German language package |
Faktor-IPS Source | org.faktorips.feature.source | Faktor-IPS Source code |
More features are available under Add-ons. When working with Maven, you should install the Faktor-IPS-m2e-Plugin.
Compatibility
While further developing Faktor-IPS, we try to ensure that Faktor-IPS is compatible with as many versions of Eclipse as possible. The latest available version of Faktor-IPS is always tailored to our customers’ needs.
The following list specifies for which Eclipse versions Faktor-IPS has been tested. Faktor-IPS does not support any versions of Eclipse older than the ones listed. New versions of Eclipse that are not explicitly listed are usually compatible with Faktor-IPS as well.
Faktor-IPS version | Eclipse version | Java version Design time | Java version Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|
24.7 | 2023-12 – 2024-09 | 17/21 | 11/17/21 |
24.1 | 2022-12 – 2023-12 | 17/21 | 8/11/17/21 |
23.6 | 2022-12 – 2023-06 | 17 | 8/11/17 |
22.12 | 2020-03 – 2022-06 | 11/17 | 8/11/17 |
22.6 | 2019-03 – 2022-06 | 11/17 | 8/11/17 |
21.12 | 2019-03 – 2021-12 | 11/17 | 8/11/17 |
21.6 | 2019-03 – 2021-06 | 11 | 8/11 |
20.12 | 4.4 – 2020-12 | 8 | 6/8 |
20.6 | 4.4 – 2020-06 | 8 | 6/8 |