Re: newbie question - how to start myjxta

Hi Ian -

  The best way to run MyJXTA is via the WebStart JNLP links. Further, I recommend running the
  nightly ... things don't typically break and nice little features/fixes are continually being
  added so you are helping by testing it out:

    http://download.jxta.org/build/nightly

      select the "lanuch myjxta.jnlp"

  The prereq for this is to have Java WebStart registered as a browser help app and at least
  JRE 1.4.2 installed although I recommend running with JRE 1.5 and using the included Java
  WebStart namely for the improvements:

    http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/

  Your next bet is the nightly binary:

    http://download.jxta.org/build/nightly

      select jxta-myjxta-YYYYMMDD.zip (where YYYYMMDD is the build date)

      unzip the file

      cd myjxta-YYYYMMDD

      execute either the included myjxta.sh:

        % sh ./myjxta.sh

      or

        % chmod 755 myjxta.sh
        % ./myjxta.sh

     note: it would be nice to have the file chmod'd as a part of the dist

  Next, you can run from source. Just recently I augmented the the MyJXTA src
  dist so that is it atomically buildable:

    http://download.jxta.org/build/nightly/

      select jxta-myjxta-src-YYYYMMDD.zip

      unzip

      cd myjxta-YYYYMMDD

      read readme.txt

      prereqs: Ant 1.6.2+, JRE 1.4.2+ (recommend 1.5)

      % ant run

      note: I blogged on this one at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gonzo/20050410#banish_sour_beer

   Lastly, you can build and run from CVS via a 3 step process:

      http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Jxta/HowCanIObtainMyJXTAsSource

      store localy "boostrap.xml"

      % ant -Dcvs.project=myjxta2 -f bootstrap.xml
      % cd myjxta2
      % ant run

   With this last method you are 1 step away from contributing patches :)

   If any of the above do not work please don't hesitate to provide the
   details so that we can get the issue(s) resolved. The good folks on
   the MyJXTA dev list, Cc'd, are a great group of folks.

   See you online.

   hth,

- james

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downard wrote:
> I'm completely new to JXTA, and relatively new to Java, so I've got a 
> newbie questions to ask about how to start myjxta in Linux.  I've 
> downloaded the core JXTA files via cvs and installed per the 
> instructions at http://platform.jxta.org/java/build.html.
> 
> I've also downloaded the myjxta zip file, and extracted it.  I ran the 
> shell script that was in it, but I still don't see any class files to 
> run.  All I see are jar files.  What do I need to do in order to run 
> myjxta?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Ian
> 
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