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Requirements:
Ensure that Java 1.5+ is installed and on the system
path. To download the JDK, visit http://java.sun.com.
Both SDKs and JDKs for Java 1.5 and 1.6 are supported.
No special operating system or hardware is required. Cougaar developers use a
variety of operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. SMP and
HyperThreading are fully supported.
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Create a Cougaar directory (ie "C:/Cougaar") and set a "COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH"
environment variable to point to this directory.
We recommend that you put COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH/bin on your PATH environment
variable, for easy access to the "cougaar" startup script.
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Download the latest release version of Cougaar from http://cougaar.org/projects/cougaar/.
Or, download the latest nightly build from
http://build.cougaar.org/auto/HEAD/latest_success/.
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Unzip the desired zip files into your COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH.
The following two are required:
- cougaar.zip, which contains the core
cougaar infrastructure.
- cougaar-support.zip, which contains all
required 3rd party support jars. The jar versions are
documented in the sys/index.html.
The other zips, such as cougaar-src.zip and cougaar-api.zip, are optional.
For additional details on the zip files and their contents, see the
Contents.html.
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You should now be able to run the "ping" application, as documented in the
Cougaar Overview Slides. This will
verify that the Cougaar installation was successful and demonstrate a basic Cougaar
application.
The "Pizza Party" application is a second demonstration application that's included
in the Cougaar release. It focuses on the Task/Allocation planning domain and
service provider discovery. For details, please see the
Online "Pizza Party" documentation,
Pizza Readme File, and
Getting Started Guide.