Emacs/JDK/JDE Installation Tutorial

Step 1 - Downloading The Software

1. Make a directory called java on your C:\ drive (i.e., c:\java)
2. Click the following links to download the files they name to a temporary location such as your desktop (be sure to remember where you put them on your machine):

   • emacs-20.4.zip
   • jdk-1_2_2_006-win.exe
   • JDE and Important Emacs File

Step 2 - Installing Emacs-20.4

1. Double click on the Emacs-20.4.zip file on your machine, which should launch a zip utility such as WinZip, to extract the files into c:\java as follows. Winzip will probably ask you to agree to a license thing - just say I Agree. You will see one of two things:
   • A Winzip Wizard screen that will help you with the extraction or
   • A Winzip Classic screen giving you a list of the files in the zip file.

   It doesn't matter which screen you have but eventually you want the Winzip Classic screen. So if you have the Wizard screen, just click the button labeled Winzip Classic the lower left hand corner. If you already have the Winzip Classic in screen up then you are okay.

2. Extract the files. Go to ACTIONS - EXTRACT... and choose that. Winzip will ask you where to extract the files to. In that white box, you want to type c:\java. Make sure you do this correctly! This process will take several seconds. When it's completed, you will see a green light turn on in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. When it turns green, it has completed. You can now close Winzip.

Step 3 - Installing JDK 1.2.2_006

1. Double-click the jdk-1_2_2_006-win.exe file on your machine to start its installation process.
2. It will ask you a series of questions throughout the installation - just take all defaults and click Next whenever possible.
3. The JDK program will be installed in c:\jdk1.2.2, not c:\java.

Step 4 - Unzipping JDE and The Important Emacs File

1. Double-click the emacs_and_jde.zip file on your machine to unzip the last set of files into c:\java, as in step 2.
2. Check to make sure you have the following files in c:\java:

   • 5 Folders: bin, etc, info, jde-2.1.5, and lisp
   • 6 Files: Bugs, Emacs, Getting Started, java.emacs, Readme, and Readme32

3. Go to c:\java\bin and double-click on the file addpm.exe. A prompt will appear asking you to install Emacs. Click OK.
4. A window will appear but you can just close it.

Step 5 - Setting Your CLASSPATH

1. Bring up Emacs by clicking on the shortcut labeled Emacs in c:\java. (Do not use emacs.exe in c:\java\bin because that won't load the JDE library.)
2. You won't see JDE on the Emacs menu bar right away. You must be editing a .java file in order for that menu to appear. Select Save buffer as from the File menu and then type in a filename ending with .java and the JDE menu will appear.
3. Select JDE->options->compile. A customization buffer will come up. The second option is the compile CLASSPATH. Click on SHOW next to it, and then INS. In the little window that appears type a period, like this:

   .
   

   The period means the current directory and, by having it in your classpath, the compiler will be able to locate files like the Keyboard.java file that will be stored in the same directory as your program file.
4. Then click on state and select save for future sessions.
5. Now you need to do the same thing for JDE->options->run (adding . to the run CLASSPATH.)