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Welcome to the download area of Visual XML

The software that you will download from here has been produced with the Sun Java Development Kit version 1.1.8 ( It does not run with Java 2 - JDK1.2 )

The JFC ( Swing-1.1.1-beta2 ) is used for the User Interface creation.
I also use as a parser the MsXML version 1.8 from Microsoft.
The EcmaScript (JavaScript) interface is from FESI version 1.1.1 15 March 1999

You should have installed on your computer the most current JDK release.
See the following URL for information on downloading the JDK:

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1

OR

if you are an end user and only want the minimal run time environment, download the JRE release.
See the following URL for information on downloading the JRE:

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/index.html

OR

If you have Internet Explorer 5.00 and the latest VM from Microsoft.
See the following URL for information on downloading the latest Virtual Machine.
Run on my system with the Version 5.00.3177 ( type JView to see it ):

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/java/sdk/32f/updates/msjavx86.asp

Download the Visual XML zip file to a temporary directory.
April 16 1999.

Here is a version with the JFC Swing-1.1.1 ( Swingall.jar ) included

visxml-b6-jfc.zip

If you already have the JFC installed, download the following file instead

visxml-b6.zip


How to execute Visual XML.

From a console window ( DOS Command Prompt ), change to the directory where you have installed this software.
At the prompt, type:

If you have the Java-SDK

C:\>\INSTALL_DIRECTORY\runjava

If you have the Java-Runtime Environment only

C:\>\INSTALL_DIRECTORY\runjre

If you have the MS Java-SDK

C:\>\INSTALL_DIRECTORY\runjview

UNIX users can download a version of runnit.bat named runnit. Thanks to M. Noel Cross for this script.


Problems to run ?

Open a Command Prompt window.

Change directory to the InstallationDirectory where you have installed Visual XML
type Runjava ( or runjre or runjview, see above )
This will start the Visual XML program.

If you received a message like this:
The name specified is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

this tell us that your PATH is wrong. Add the JAVA HOME path to your PATH environment variable.

To view your PATH, type the command 'echo %PATH%' at the DOS Prompt.
On my machine, it display:
C:\WINTNT\System32;C:\WINNT;c:\jdk1.1.8\bin

If you received a message like this:
Can't find class com/pierlou/proto/PMVisual

this tell us that your CLASSPATH is wrong. Add the classes.zip and the swingall.jar to your CLASSPATH

To view your CLASSPATH, type the command 'echo %CLASSPATH%' at the DOS Prompt.
On my machine, it display:
c:\jdk1.1.8\lib\classes.zip;c:\swing-1.1.1-beta2\swingall.jar


Acknowledgement:

This piece of software is made possible because many software designers have created great tools. I would like to thank them and give you the opportunity to see and used their works.

Java Development Kit ( Sun Microsystems, Inc. )
Java Foundation Classes ( Sun Microsystems, Inc. )
A JavaScript interpreter from Jean-Marc Lugrin FESI - a Free EcmaScript Interpreter

The book of Richard Light 'Presenting XML' introduces me to XML design.
Simon St-Laurent 'XML A Primer' help me to understand more on the subject.
A very good book in my opinion is 'The XML companion' by Neil Bradley

Some of my favorites link on XML.

The Robin Cover Page
World Wide Web Consortion
Guidelines for using XML for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
Archive of XML-DEV
http://www.xml.com
finetuning.com
James K. Tauber's Site

Pierre Morel

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