[kepler-users] Query regarding JDK requirement

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi fHarini,
Is your platform Windows or the Mac?
Does Kepler start up for you from within Eclipse?

I've not actually tried the hello-world tutorial, maybe one of
the original authors of the tutorial can jump in?

_Christopher


hriyer at ncsu.edu wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Thank you for the prompt reply. I am new to kepler and I have just
> started. What I am trying to do is build a workflow and I realised that it
> is a good idea to get the kepler build with eclipse. I followed the
> instructions on
> 
> https://kepler-project.org/developers/reference/kepler-and-eclipse
> 
> and after that tried to go through the tutorial to create a hello-world
> actor given in
> 
> https://kepler-project.org/developers/teams/build/developing-a-hello-world-actor-using-the-kepler-build-system-and-eclipse/
> 
> So, there are a lot of problems I am facing like the absence of
> LimitedFiringSource and many other eclipse errors. In fact I could create
> a module for hello-world as mentioned till step 2 of the tutorial, but
> somehow the module does not get loaded in the eclipse workspace by
> importing. I am sure I am missing out on something. I would be really glad
> if you would kindly guide me through this.
> 
> Thank you,
> Harini
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi Harini,
>> JDK5 is not a strict requirement for the devel version of
>> Kepler.  To get the devel version see
>> https://kepler-project.org/developers/get-kepler-code
>>
>> JDK5 is the same as Java 1.5, JDK6 is the same as Java 1.6.
>> For discussion about Java 1.5 and 1.6, see
>> https://kepler-project.org/developers/kepler-development-forum/build-and-release-team/496635000
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure if JDK 6 will work with Kepler-1.0.0 though.
>> There might be version problems with the SQL driver in Kepler-1.0.0.
>>
>> Note that Java 6 has problems running Eclipse on the Mac.
>> See http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/wiki/Main/Mac#Eclipse1_6
>> This may have changed with last weeks Java update from Apple.
>>
>>
>> ptolemy.actor.lib.LimitedFiringSource was created on 2007-07-11.
>>
>> The version of Kepler-1.0.0 that I have has LimitedFiringSource in
>> kepler.jar:
>>
>> jar -tvf kepler.jar | grep Limited
>>    2114 Tue Apr 29 15:56:52 PDT 2008
>> ptolemy/actor/lib/LimitedFiringSource.class
>>    6316 Tue Apr 29 15:57:02 PDT 2008
>> ptolemy/actor/lib/LimitedFiringSource.java
>>
>> Are you building from the kepler subversion repository or from
>> Kepler-1.0.0?
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>> hriyer at ncsu.edu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is JDK5 a strict requirement? I have JDK 6 installed, will that be a
>>> problem? Also, I am trying to follow the setup instructions, and I tried
>>> to create a Hello World actor exactly as it says, but I have run into
>>> many
>>> problems. It seems that there many packages that are missing in my
>>> workspace. For example, class LimitedFiringSource is missing too. How do
>>> I
>>> go about it?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harini
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> 

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Christopher Brooks (cxh at eecs berkeley edu) University of California
CHESS Executive Director                      US Mail: 337 Cory Hall
Programmer/Analyst CHESS/Ptolemy/Trust        Berkeley, CA 94720-1774
ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2718	      (Office: 545Q Cory)
home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480