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:
- Download
mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga.zip
from MySQL.
- 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.