Last Revised 8/27/02 at 2:30pm

Installation Directions and Documentation

 

Installing JDK 1.3

  1. Create a folder called jdk1.3 in the root folder on your favorite drive (usually c: drive).

  2. Make sure that you have at least a 300 MHz Pentium PC with at least 64 MB memory. BlueJ will run on a 166MHz processor with 48 MB, but it will be slow.

  3. Insert the CD from the Gittleman textbook into the CD drive, go to the folder Java SDK, and double click on the executable file J2SDK-1_3_1-win.exe . Follow the directions for installation, installing the software in the folder jdk1.3 that you created above.

  4. If you wish to obtain jdk1.3 (Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.3) directly from Sun, get it from its website www.java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download-windows.html. You must use version 1.3 or 1.4 for BlueJ to work properly.

    On this page you can also browse or download documentation for jdk1.3. Downloading all of the documentation requires more than 20 Meg of disk space, so you should probably browse the documentation online to see if you find useful information first.

 

Installing BlueJ

  1. Create a folder named bluej in the root folder on your favorite drive (usually c:).

  2. Download the file bluejsetup-121.exe from the website www.bluej.org. In the table of contents on the left, choose Download, and then bluejsetup-121.exe. The file size of the downloaded file should be 1,277,795 bytes.
  3. You should be able to install BlueJ by running this self extracting zip file, and responding "Yes" or "Next" on all the screens. If you need additional directions, select Documentation and BlueJ installation instructions on the BlueJ Website. You can get there directly with this link to BlueJ Installation Instructions. Follow these Installation Instructions (Step 3).

  4. If you are having trouble downloading from the BlueJ web site, you can use this link: bluejsetup-120.exe.

  5. When you run BlueJ for the first time, you will be asked to select the Java compiler to be used. Choose JDK 1.3. This choice is in case you have other Java compilers on your machine such as JBuilder.

  6. You can get documentation from the BlueJ web site. A useful document that you can download or print is the BlueJ Tutorial. In addition to English, versions are available in Italian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, and Hebrew.

 

Modifications for Windows95, Windows98, or WindowsME.

  1. If you are using Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME, a common problem when you start BlueJ is the message "Out of environment space." To read about the solution to this problem on the BlueJ web sits, as well as other less common problems, click on Documentation in the table of contents on the left, go to the bottom of the page, and click on the link Installation Problems section in the FAQ.

  2. Here is the short description of what to do if you obtain the error message, "Out of environment space." Add this following line to the config.sys file in the c: drive:

    shell=c:\windows\command.com /p /e:4096

    Then restart your computer.

  3. For Windows ME that does not have a config.sys, do the following:
    • Open a DOS window.
    • Find the "Properties" dialog, then the "Memory" tab.
    • Change the setting for "Initial Environment" to 4096.
    • Click OK.
    • Close this DOS window.

    You shouldn't have to do either of these things if you are running Windows 2000 or Windows NT.