This page guides you how to set up the plug-in development environment for Astah Professional.

Set up the development environment

  1. Make sure that your environment meets the System Requirements.

2. Download the Astah Plug-in SDK. (The SDK is based on Maven3).

3. Extract the Astah Plug-in SDK to a folder then set the following environment variables.

  • Specify the ‘astah-plugin-SDK-x.x\bin’ folder for the [PATH] environment variable, where the executable files of the Astah Plug-in SDK are located.
e.g.) set PATH=C:\dev\astah-plugin-SDK-x.x\bin;%PATH%
  • If the environment variable [JAVA_HOME] is not specified, install Java that meets the System Requirement (Most of Astah installers are including Java, so you may not need to install.). Then add [JAVA_HOME] and specify the folder.
e.g.) set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_65

4. Run the command below.

> asdk

5. If the below appears, that means an installation of Astah Plug-in SDK is completed.

> astah* Plug-in SDK version: x.x

6. Open %ASDK_HOME%¥conf¥settings.xml with a text editor.
In this .xml file, there are several pre-set profiles for each edition and OS.
By default, the configuration for Astah Professional edition on Windows is selected.
setting-xml-astah-professional


So please make sure to choose the profile that applies to your OS and make others commented out.
Also, after you choose the profile, please double-check that the file path to Astah app and edition are correct in the following three properties:

  • <file> – <exists>
  • <properties> – <astahPath>
  • <properties> – <astahEdition>
settings-xml-professional

Now, run the command below to make sure Astah launches on the SDK.:

> astah-launch
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If the error happens…

If you get one of the following errors, please try the workaround noted here.

Return code is: 501, ReasonPhrase:HTTPS Required
or
Could not transfer artifact xxx from/to central

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