Look for a heading titled Latest Releases and locate the column titled Build Name. Click on the link titled 2.0.1 under the column Build Name as highlighted in Figure 2.1, “EMF downloads page” to load another webpage in your browser.

Figure 2.1. EMF downloads page

You should now be seeing a webpage as shown in Figure 2.2, “Release Build: 2.0.1 webpage”. You should see a heading titled SDK which has a column titled Download. You should see links to three different zip files. Locate and click on the link titled emf-sdo-xsd-SDK-2.0.1.zip as shown in Figure 2.2, “Release Build: 2.0.1 webpage”, choose a mirror and download the zip file.

Figure 2.2. Release Build: 2.0.1 webpage

Once you open the zip file using a decompressing utility of your choice, you will notice that the zip file shows a folder titled eclipse, as shown in Figure 2.3, “Extracting the EMF zip file”.

Figure 2.3. Extracting the EMF zip file

Now, extract the zip file to the parent folder of your Eclipse installation. For example, if you have installed Eclipse in the location c:\starthis_demo\eclipse, you should extract the zip file into c:\starthis_demo as shown in Figure 2.4, “Extracting to the Eclipse parent folder”.

Figure 2.4. Extracting to the Eclipse parent folder

Please note that if you are currently using the Eclipse platform, you have to close it and re-open it to complete the plug-in installation.

You can verify the installation by navigating to Help->About Eclipse Platform and clicking on the button titled Plug-in Details. This will pop up a window as shown in Figure 2.5, “EMF installation verification window”. Note that the EMF plug-ins have been highlighted in the image.

Figure 2.5. EMF installation verification window