Adding BigInsights nature to a project

You must add an InfoSphere® BigInsights™ nature to a project before you can use any InfoSphere BigInsights functionality, such as MapReduce applications, Jaql or Hive queries, or Text Analytics. extractors.

About this task

Adding an InfoSphere BigInsights nature to a project automatically sets some properties and functions for the project that are specific to an InfoSphere BigInsights development project.

Procedure

  1. From the Eclipse workbench, right-click the project from the Package Explorer.
  2. Click Add BigInsight Nature. The InfoSphere BigInsights nature is added to the project.
  3. Expand the project. The InfoSphere BigInsights library is now visible in the project.
  4. Ensure that your project is configured to use at least Java™ 1.6 service release 10 for compiling.
  5. Ensure that the text file encoding of the BigInsights project is UTF-8. On the Project properties page, click Resources > Text file encoding, and select UTF-8.