# COSMOS Developer's Guide

## Setting up the Development Environment

This topic explains how to prepare your environment for COSMOS.

COSMOS provides a set of tools to help you build an MDR. These tools are provided as extensions to the Eclipse SDK environment. They are included as part of the COSMOS SDK package.

To begin building the MDR in this Student-Teacher example, you must first install the COSMOS SDK into Eclipse. There are a number of prerequisites for the COSMOS SDK, including Eclipse Webtools and its prerequisites. See the "Installing the COSMOS SDK" section in the COSMOS Installation Guide for specifics on how to install the COSMOS SDK and its prerequisites.

Now you can proceed to creating a data manager or MDR project.

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