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Jini Technology Starter Kit v1.2.1_001
Installation Instructions

• The Jini Technology Core Platform (JCP) provides the core Jini technology infrastructure software. It includes the specification and corresponding interfaces and classes for lookup, distributed events, leasing, transactions, and discovery and join.

• The Jini Technology Extended Platform (JXP) provides the extended Jini technology infrastructure software. It includes the specifications and corresponding interfaces and classes for Jini technology-enabled utilities that are useful in writing new applications and services, and Jini technology-enabled services, including JavaSpaces technology.

• The Jini Software Kit (JSK) provides several implementations: implementations of the lookup service and transaction manager service, specified in the Jini Technology Core Platform (JCP); implementations of utilities classes that are useful in writing new applications and services, specified in the Jini Technology Extended Platform (JXP); and Jini technology-enabled services, including JavaSpaces technology, also specified in the Jini Technology Extended Platform.

The JCP, JXP, and JSK are distributed as the Jini Technology Starter Kit, which contains the source code, executable files, and complete documentation.

The Jini Technology Starter Kit includes the binaries, source code, and support documentation. The downloadable file name for the starter kit is jini-1_2_1_001-src.zip, and extracts into the directory, jini1_2_1_001.

Change directory to where you would like the software to reside. For example:

• On UNIX platforms:

  	% cp downloaded-path/jini-1_2_1_001-src.zip /files
  	% cd /files
  	

• On Microsoft Windows platforms:

  	C:\> copy downloaded-path\jini-1_2_1_001-src.zip C:\files
  	C:\> cd C:\files
  	

Extract the zip file:

• Please take a look at the list of platforms on which the Jini Technology Starter Kit has been tested. If you have already downloaded the Java 2 SDK, and you don't have access to an unzipping utility, you can use the jar command, included in the bin directory of the SDK, as long as it it reachable from your executable path.

  % jar xvf jini-1_2_1_001-src.zip 

• If you are on a UNIX platform, you can use a UNIX version of unzip.

  % unzip -d jini-1_2_1_001-src.zip 

• If you are on a Microsoft Windows platform, you can use the unzipping tool of your choice.

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Examining the zip file contents

index.html
The starting page for all documentation

doc
The directory that contains API documentation, supporting documentation for the examples, this installation file, license files, and release notes

example
The directory that contains supporting files for running the example code

lib
The directory where the JAR files are located

policy
The directory that contains policy file templates for the Jini technology-enabled services included with the starter kit

source
The directory where the source code for the binary classes is located

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Platforms on which the Jini Technology Starter Kit has been tested

While you may use another platform configuration, if you encounter problems, you should try one of the platforms listed at :http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/jini/tested.html .

These Java 2 SDK releases are available from http://java.sun.com/j2se/

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