How to install java and an editor

First download java 1.5 from the sun java website

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

Note that java 1.5 is also called java 5.

If you plan to install PFE, make sure you record the path where the compiler is installed so that you can use it to configure PFE to compile. The path will probably be something like

      c:/Program Files/Java/jdk.5.0

Now install an editor. In the lab we are using PFE. Complete instructions for installing PFE are here. The following is a brief explanation of what you have to do.
You can download PFE directly from here. After downloading the zip file, you can install it by simply extracting the contents of the zip file to a new directory in a suitable location such as "c:\program files\PFE". Once you have unzipped, you will want to make a shortcut to PFE32.exe.

After downloading and installing PFE you must configure it so that it will compile and run java. Instructions on downloading, installing, and configuring it are

Briefly, to configure PFE so that it will compile and run java, you must two things:

Use Options/Preferences/Assocations to associate PFE with .java files
Use Options/Preferences/Execute Menu to set up compile and run menu options. The compile menu option will execute the javac command, using the path where you installed java, so the path to the compiler (ie to javac) would be something like the following:
```
            c:/Program Files/Java/jdk.5.0/bin/javac
                  
```

You can also install other editors. The disk that comes with your text includes JGRASP, which you can also find on the web. Another good system is JCreator.

One other point - you can use PFE to compile other languages if you know the addresses of the compilers. You can, for example, set up commands to compile and run Ada programs.