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To run jfract you will need different tools such as ant, jai, jmf, crimson and of course jdk 1.3 at least. if you have all of that its fantastic you can run it directly. if you don't have anything here is a list of differents usefull url to dowload these tools. You will need a powerfull computer enough memory ( at least 300 Mhz, 128Mb).
Tools | Description | where to download |
Ant 1.4.1 (at least) | What you need to run jfract and build your own fractals. | http://jakarta.apache.org/ |
Jai 1.1.1 | Java advanced Imaging a plug in for the jdk | http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/index.html |
Crimson | A light xml parser | http://xml.apache.org/crimson/ |
Log4J | A java log tool | http://jakarta.apache.org/ |
Jmf |
Java media framework |
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/ |
Jdk 1.3 |
Java devellopement kit 1.3 |
http://java.sun.com/ |
Once you've downloaded jfract1_0a.zip and all the tools are installed. verify that ANT_HOME/bin is in the path system. unzip jfract to a folder then copy jmf, jai, ... libs to the extrnalLib/ directory.
Cd to jfract and just prompt "ant jarKernel" compile the kernel.
Try ant startSamples to launch a default beans jar.
Write your java beans in the beans/src directory. if you want an example just unzip samples.zip to JFRACT_HOME and try ant makeAndStart.
let's go to conf and edit l4j.properties to set the log level.
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG, A1, A2
for more information about log4j go to http://jakarta.apache.org/ page.
Several target are defined from the build.xml file to get a description just prompt "ant -projecthelp" to get the list of the targets available.
for more inforamtion about ant go to http://jakarta.apache.org/ page.
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