Quick start for running book examples on Windows platform

1. Verify your environment

   1.1. Make sure that you've placed all distribution files under a directory
        on your filesystem, say, "C:\code\yooreeka" on a Windows OS or /code/yooreeka
        on a Linux OS. You can call that directory whatever you want.
   
   1.2  Set the property yooreeka.home in the yooreeka.properties file, so that
        it points to the installation directory mentioned above. Make sure the rest 
        of the properties are consistently pointing to the appropriate locations. 
   
   1.3. Start windows command line interpreter (cmd.exe) and confirm that you 
        can run java and ant from the command line on your system. 
   
        Within a Windows command prompt, execute the following:
   
            java -version
            ant -version
   
           If you get an error see step 2. Otherwise skip to step 3.

2. Configure your Java and Ant environment variables

   You can skip this step, if you already have JDK and Ant configured on your system to run from command line. Assuming that java jdk is in C:\jdk1.7.0_10 and Ant is in C:\apache-ant-1.7.0 use the following commands:

   SET JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.7.0_10
   SET ANT_HOME=C:\apache-ant-1.7.0
   SET PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
   
   SET JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF8

   If your JDK or Ant are installed elsewhere, please, change the above values accordingly.

   The JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS ensures that files containing UTF-8 characters will not cause the build to fail. Details about this environment variable can be found here:

   http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/platform/jvmti/jvmti.html#tooloptions

   At this point you should be able to run java and ant from command line without errors. If you've only configured environment for your current command line interpreter make sure that you perform steps 3 and 4 in the same instance of interpreter.

3. Reset your CLASSPATH environment variable

   Type the following command in your command prompt:

   SET CLASSPATH=

   This command empties your classpath, which is required for the rest of the process to work. In other words, we assume a clean slate for the CLASSPATH environment variable.

4. Run ant build file for the project:

   Within the same command prompt execute the following two commands:

   cd /D C:\code\yooreeka\build
   ant

   Ant will execute the default target from the C:\iWeb2\build\build.xml build file. It will build all source code and will prepare the 'C:\code\yooreeka\deploy' directory.

5. Start the BeanShell

   Within the same command prompt execute:

   C:\code\yooreeka\deploy\bin\bsc.bat

You are ready to run book examples!!!

Note: Within the BeanShell you will have command history. So, if you typed something and you would like to repeat it the command with different argument values or type something else similar to the previous command, you can use the UP / DOWN arrows to move up and down the history of the BeanShell commands, respectively.

Enjoy!