XSet Installation Instructions

For users who have obtained XSet with the Ninja software distribution, follow the instructions inside the distribution for installation help.

To set up XSet, do the following:

1. Download the XSet source release here, and uncompress (either by unzipping or tar xzf) into a directory of your choice
2. For version 2.0, download a version of the Apache Xerces XML Parser from Apache
   For version 1.1, you can either download the discontinued XML parser XML4J from my website, or else download Xerces, then download DOMParser.java and compile it into the 1.1 distribution.
3. Make sure that the XML parser jar file is referenced correctly in your CLASSPATH environmental variable.
4. Add the java directory inside the XSet directory to your  CLASSPATH.
5. cd to the java/ninja/xset (for XSet 2.0) or java/xset (for XSet 1.1) directory inside where XSet has been uncompressed, and type make to compile the source. (You must have a JDK 1.1.x or 1.2 compatible compiler in your valid path)
6. If you want to run the Swing application demo, you'll need to either have JDK 1.2 or download the Swing libraries from Sun's website. The swing application is not in the makefile, so just go to the java directory and type java xset/SwingDemoApp.java
7. Remember that XSetService is a RMI service, and therefore, rmiregistry must be running in the background in order for XSetService to register its name, and for XSetClient to connect properly.