Handle PM Client Installation

Attention: If Web requests are served by a proxy within your subnetwork please follow the directions to provide proxy information.

Attention: If your are using Linux please let us know since we have sometimes had thread management problems under Linux.

Step-by-step Instructions

• Contact Hui-Fang Wen for user/password password information to download the client.
• Download the client pkg.tar.gz (gzip format).
• Runtime environment
  • You must have Java J2SE 1.4.0 or higher (either JRE or SDK) installed.
   
• Unpack the tar-ed client file pkg.tar.gz. A directory "Umd02PMv2" will be created.
  • Unix: gtar -xvzf pkg.tar.gz for GNU. Else gunzip pkg.tar.gz ; tar -xvf pkg.tar
  • Windows: use WinZip 8.1
   
• Verify that the directory Umd02PMv2 contains the following files:
  • activation.jar
  • clip.jar
  • handle.jar
  • mail.jar
  • client.config
  • exp.config
  • handle.list2.en
• Change the from_address setting in the client.config file
  from_address = your_contact_email
  
• Run the client program:
  
  • Unix (No Proxy) :
    nohup java -classpath handle.jar:mail.jar:activation.jar:clip.jar Client client.config &
  • Unix (With Proxy):
    nohup java -classpath handle.jar:mail.jar:activation.jar:clip.jar Client client.config your_proxy_host your_proxy_port &
  • Windows (No Proxy) :
    java -classpath handle.jar;mail.jar;activation.jar;clip.jar;rt.jar Client client.config
  • Windows (With Proxy):
    java -classpath handle.jar;mail.jar;activation.jar;clip.jar;rt.jar Client client.config your_proxy_host your_proxy_port &

• If the client is successful it will output two strings. If this is not the case please contact Hui-Fang Wen .
  Unix - Check standard output or alternately the nohup.out file. Windows - Check standard output.
  
  The two strings are as follows:
  Client xxxx has been started.
  SUCCESS: Client sent out the first Alive message.
  

• If you want to run two or more clients on the same host please contact Hui-Fang Wen .

Please, inform Professor Louiqa Raschid if you plan to install our client. Contact Hui-Fang Wen for technical details about the client.