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Forte for Java (Community Edition) installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Apr 28 16:28:51 2000
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Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, nathanw@MIT.EDU, lerman@MIT.EDU, jud@MIT.EDU,
facdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:27:57 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have installed the Forte for Java integrated development environment
on Athena for Sun and Linux (i386_linux22) machines- although it is
written in Java and in principle should be runnable on SGIs, there are
some binaries and differences in certain directories that make this
non-trivial. I have seen various glitches and you may run into more,
including the long exit time. At the moment the hotspot option isn't
functional because I haven't added it to our JDK installation. I hope
to do this soon (but it's only available for Suns at the moment).
To run it, do:
add forte; forte4j
at the Athena prompt.
Alex
From my zephyr message announcing it:
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Forte is an integrated Java development environment from Sun with many
features, and is itself written in Java. There is extensive online help
and tutorials accessible through the internal help system, as well as an
online manual in Acrobat pdf format (file
/mit/forte_v1.0/distrib/share/docs/UsersGuide.pdf, and a tutorial guide
in mit/forte_v1.0/distrib/share/docs/Tutorials.pdf).
It requires a recent Java run-time environment to run, currently the JDK
release in the java_v1.2.2 locker.
It will create a directory forte4j_user in your home directory
initially populated with about 640K of files plus whatever you create
in developing projects- you will need at least that much free disk
space to run it. It will most likely not run well on machines with
less than 128 meg of memory, or at all on machines with less than 64 meg.
We have run into various more or less minor problems so far- for example, it is
difficult to run the "getting started" tutorial because at times the tutorial
text window won't scroll when you need to, or it disappears partway through
running the tutorial- it also contains some typos.
Exiting takes an unusually long time- it can sit there for up to 3
minutes or so after you select Exit from the main GUI, but eventually
it will stop and all the windows close. Please do not log off before
it has exited cleanly- if you do it may leave daemons running that can
interfere with proper operation of the workstation, and this may also
corrupt your files.
Please send questions/comments to the 3partysw@mit.edu mailing list, and
report bugs using sendbug.
