AppScan® Source for Development (plug-in for Eclipse, IBM® MobileFirst Platform, and Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (RAD))

If you are installing the AppScan® Source for Development plug-in for Eclipse, Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (RAD), or IBM® MobileFirst Platform, you will need to apply the plug-ins to your workbench after installing them to your computer.

The application of the AppScan® Source for Development Eclipse plug-in depends on the application of some Eclipse tools (the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) and Draw2d). Most versions of Eclipse that are supported by AppScan® Source for Development include these features. If yours does not, install these components into your Eclipse environment using the appropriate eclipse.org update site before installing AppScan® Source for Development. Failure to do this may result in errors while applying the AppScan® Source for Development plug-in to Eclipse.

If you are upgrading the AppScan® Source product to a new product version and want to apply the upgrade to theAppScan® Source for Development Eclipse plug-ins, you must first uninstall the plug-ins from your Eclipse or Eclipse-based product. After you have upgraded AppScan® Source, you can then install the updated plug-ins back to Eclipse or supported Eclipse-based products. Instructions for this are located in Upgrading previously-installed versions of the AppScan Source for Development Eclipse plug-in to a new product version.

If you are upgrading the AppScan® Source product as part of a fix pack upgrade, you do not need to uninstall the plug-ins before upgrading. Instructions for installing fix packs (and applying upgraded AppScan® Source for Development plug-ins) can be found in Fix pack installation.

Note:

Attempts to run some actions in AppScan® Source for Development (Eclipse plug-in) (for example, launching a scan or starting actions that require a login) can result in this error message (or one that is similar to it):

Unable to link native library shared-win32-x64.dll. 
You may need to install an appropriate Microsoft Visual C++ 
2017 x86 Redistributable Package for your system.

When running on a 64-bit Java™ Runtime Environment, this typically indicates that the 64-bit Microsoft™ Visual C++ runtime library is unavailable. To resolve this problem, install the Microsoft™ Visual C++ Redistributable Package appropriate to your Visual Studio version, available here.