Installing CDE

 

The Contract Development Environment (CDE) consists of an editor and an animator. They were written in Java and require JDK 1.2 to run. CDE was only tested under Windows 2000. We henceforth assume you know how to use Windows and the JDK.

The CD-ROM distribution has a CDE-1.1 folder that contains the environment, documentation (of which this file is part), and example contracts. To install CDE just copy the folder to any folder in your hard disk, e.g., the Program Files folder. The CDE-1.1 folder will be called the CDE root directory henceforth. It contains one batch file run.bat to run the editor. You may wish to put a shortcut to that batch file in your Windows startup menu or in the quick launch bar.

The CD-ROM also contains two zip files in case you wish to re-distribute CDE to your colleagues in a more space-efficient way. To install CDE using the zip files, just uncompress the cde.zip file in a directory of your choice (e.g., Program Files) on your hard disk. This will create the CDE root directory CDE-1.1. Uncompress the docs.zip file within the CDE root directory. Then create the shortcuts to run.bat, if you wish.

To read the documentation, go to the docs subdirectory and open the CDEDoc.html file with your Web browser.

The first publicly released version of CDE is 1.1. For the latest version of CDE, check the CDE site (www.atxsoftware.com/CDE).

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