JXTA Tutorial: JXTA Installation and Configuration

Goal

The aim of this lab is to provide hands-on experience with installation of JXTA and configuration and execution of JXTA applications.

The lab is divided into three separate sections:
  1. Download and installation of the JXTA system and the JXTA Companion Tutorial 2.5 Programs.
  2. Installation and configuration of a simple JXTA application (from the JXTA Companion Tutorial 2.5 Programs).
  3. Installation and configuration of an advanced JXTA application that demonstrates the use of the JxtaSocket API.

JXTA Installation

In order to install JXTA, you must first downlad the relevant files from the JXTA project website (java.net/projects/jxta). You should also download the Project JXTA v2.5: Java[tm] Programmer's Guide so that you may consult it later.

Downloading Files

Releases from the JXTA project can be downloaded from http://download.jxta.org/build/release, we suggest that you download the latest version 2.5. You may either select jar files individually or download the myjxta2 zip archive (jxta-myjxta-2.5.zip), which contains all files that are needed to install JXTA.

You must also download the programs described in the Project JXTA 2.5: Java[tm] Programmer's Guide from ( www.jxta.org/ProgGuideExamples.zip) .

Unpacking the Installation

Create a directory to be used for this tutorial (this directory will probably become the root for your development of jxta applications, so we will refer to this directory as the jxtaroot directory). Unpack the "http://download.java.net/jxta/jxta-jxse/2.5/jxse-tutorials-src-2.5.zip" file into this directory. This will create a subdirectory called "jxse-tutorials-2.5".

Configuring and Running a Simple Example

Use ANT for compiling and running the examples, as described in the "README" file.

Look at the different examples by first reading the information in the Programmers Guide, then looking at the source code in the tutorial examples, and finally running the different examples.

Make sure you look at the socket example.

Christian D. Jensen
Last updated: April 28'th 2011 by Bo Holst-Christensen