Preparing your computer

Getting MoMaVis to run on your machine is easy. All you need to do is to make sure that your computer fulfills the minimum requirements and that you have installed the JDBC driver that belongs to your database.

System requirements

MoMaVis requires at least Java 1.4.2 (and runs fine on Java 5.0). It is recommend that you install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_08 (ca 15 MB).
Additionally it is recommended that your machine has at least 128 MB RAM and a screen resolution of at least 1024x768 pixels.

JDBC drivers

Due to licensing issues the IPK Gatersleben does not make prepackaged JDBC drivers available to the public.
But don't be afraid, installing a JDBC driver is really easy. We will show you how to do this for the
MySQL JDBC driver:
  1. Download mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga.zip from MySQL.
  2. Extract the file mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga-bin.jar from it to $JAVA_HOME/lib/ext/ on your hard disk.
That's it. The JDBC driver should now be automagically recognized by MoMaVis.

Java Web Start

Java Web Start (JWS) is automatically installed by the Java JRE setup program. You don't need any extra software.