Compatibility

The virtual commons experiment software should be able to run on any platform that supports Java 1.6 - this can be problematic on Macs (at the time of this writing you need to download the Java 1.6 developer preview at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307208).

In addition to Java, it is recommended that you have the following installed as well:

  • To run experiments, you will need a webserver like Apache with mime types configured to serve JNLP files correctly.
  • Ant - http://ant.apache.org

For developers, it is recommended you also install Maven 2 (http://maven.apache.org).