Quickstart


This page shall explain how to start using jAugment in just a few, basic steps.

  1. Install a recent JDK (1.2 and 1.3 are fine, 1.4 still has many bugs as of the time of writing and should not be used). a JRE may not be sufficient.
  2. Download the installer for the most-recent Version. There are other ways to install jAugment Use the web-installer as long as you don't intent to install it to multiple machines. It is supposed to download only the code you want to install.
  3. Execute the installer by either clicking on it (if ".jar"-files are associated with "java -jar %1%") or execute "<JDK-dir>/bin/java -jat jaugment2install.jar"
  4. Under Unix-like operating-systrems you should "chmod a+x SwingUI 3DUI TextUI ant/bin/* buildme" as file-attributes cannot yet be set in Java OS-independently.
  5. If that was not done while installing the JDK (happens automatically under Windows) you should set the Environment-variable JAVA_HOME to the path where you installed the JDK.
  6. Now execute SwingUI or SwingUI.bat respectively. It should check wether any files need to be re-compiled and then start the Swing user-interface. 
  7. At the top you'll see a bar where you can switch between all running services(applications) and to a "start".panel where new servies can be started.
  8. You stop a service by opening the administrative-menu with the "=="-button. A new page will apear where you can select the Stoppable-administrative interface and just click on "stop" and "OK".
Read more about:
known bugs
changes made
applications as services
attributes
administrative interfaces
multiple UIs
network-awareness
programming with jAugment