We really like the JPalo eclipse client. The ad-hoc browsing is excellent, it makes stacking dimensions very simple. The only set back is that there is no version of OSX available in the downloads section. However making this great tool work on the mac is a simple task which can easily be accomplished by any user.

The following step are required to perform this task

1. •    Download the Mac OSX Java EE Edition from here
   

2. •    Extract the archive from the above file and copy the eclipse folder to the applications section in finder
   

3. •    Complete the necessary steps to download the eclipse client in either the windows or linux format from the JPalo website (The actual type does     not matter, since we simply extract the necessary dependancies from the archive)
   

4. •    Extract the file downloaded from the JPalo website
   

5. •    Enter the features directory of the JPalo archive and copy all the the directories which are contained within. Paste these folders into the features folder in the eclipse application which was previously downloaded
   

1. •    Copy all of the files which begin com.tensegrity from the plugins folder in the archive downloaded from the JPalo website to the corresponding folder in you eclipse directory.
   

The core files are now in place.

Start eclipse and change the perspective to one of the palo perspectives.

As can be seen you can now perform adhoc queries and drag and drop dimensions to slice and dice the cube at your will.

We have not tried out all of the features offered by the tool and it is possible that some of the features, such as searching for dimension elements are missing since these might depend on code in the Apache Lucene library. If you want to ensure that every feature will work then copy all of the jar files from the plugins folder in the JPalo archive to the the corresponding folder in Eclipse.