Geodesic -- a distributed annotation system client Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Washington University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute All rights reserved ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please email me at: robin@genetics.wustl.edu for reporting bugs, comments, suggestions, complaints, ... 1. Obtaining Geodesic --------------------- See http://biodas.org/geodesic/ for information on accessing the anonymous CVS server. 2. Running Geodesic ------------------- Geodesic requires Java 1.2 or greater. [If using the Kaffe version of Java, it is recommended that you download IBM, Sun, or Blackdown as Geodesic has known problems with Kaffe.] - Compiling the source code: ------------------------- change to the geodesic/ directory: "cd geodesic/" copy example preferences and bookmarks files from the notes directory: "cp notes/preferences.xml ." "cp notes/bookmarks.xml ." compile: "geodesic> javac Das.java" execute: "geodesic> java Das" - Note: ----- The default bookmarks file contains references to a series of test servers at http://wolfie.wustl.edu:8080/cgi-bin/das/. This server is for testing and development and may have intermitent service. 4. Obtaining Java ----------------- Java: http://java.sun.com/ Jar files: http://web2.java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/basics/index.html