Getting Started with EQUIP Component Toolkit (Webstart version)

Preparing your machine(s)

Operating System

For best results we suggest Microsoft Windows (2000 or above) as the OS: quite a lot of the current components depend on this, or are better supported on this. However you can try at your own risk on other platforms.

Pre-requisites

Infrastructure

Java WebStart, and run-time environment. We are currently working with Java 1.4.2 or similar.

Component dependencies

Phidgets.com USB drivers, Phidget.msi, for PhidgquipFactory Phidget interface components.
Java Media Framework v.2, http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html, for JMFVideoCaptureManager video capture (for video framework).

You will also need to ensure that your video capture device(s) are registered with the JMF registry before they will be visible to the capture component - see the JMF Start menu options.

Javax Comm (serial line support), http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/downloads/index.html, for SmartITFactory.

Make sure that you follow the installation instructions for java v.1.2 and above, not 1.1 (unless you have java 1.1, of course :-)

If you want to use the atomblogger then you sign up with the (free) www.blogger.com. Once you have made your blob you should find the blog ID number in at least one page URL. The corresponding posting URL for the atomblogger component is then (currently) "http://www.blogger.com/atom/YOURBLOGID". You can do this after installing the infrastructure. There may or may not be a blog configured into the atom blogger component by default.

Running

Once the above (especially Java WebStart) are installed, click on the following link to start... http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cmg/Equator/Downloads/docs/ect/webstart/ect.jnlp