Installation Instructions for the JControl/IDE

The JControl/IDE is distributed in different variants. Each package includes all

JControl Development Tools, the device profiles, API Documentation and the latest
collection of Examples and Demos. Using a JControl/IDE package, it is not necessary
to download any other files from this site.

When you are not familiar with JAVA, you should prefer one of the fully integrated
installers: The installer includes also the JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) and
everything else you need to run the software. It is available for Windows and Linux
operating systems. The installation runs full automatically and there's no need to
have root access to the system.

When there is already a working JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) available onto your
system, you may deselect the integrated JRE during the installation procedure.
Please make sure that you have a JRE version 1.5.0_06 or above. The JRE can be
downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.

The JControl/IDE uses the Standard Widget Toolkit (http://www.eclipse.org/swt) from

the Eclipse Project as Graphical User Interface. To access the serial communication
ports, the JControl/IDE needs the JAVA Communications API. You may choose the
original JAVA Communications API from Sun Microsystems, but please note that it
sometimes works really slow. Alternatively, we offer the binaries of Trent Jarvi's
free RXTX implementation (http://www.rxtx.org), also available in the JControl
Download Section.