Newbie with newbie Problems...

[Jerry at Westrick.com]

Title: Newbie with newbie Problems...

Hello All...

Preamble
I'm trying to get XMLBLASTER to work, so I can join you all...
unfortunately my LINUX development expirience can be listed by "cat
/dev/null".

My linux expirience is better (at least a little) but mostly on the
operating/installation side. (setting up file-servers, firewalls,
routes, etc).

I'm an Expirience developer, but new to linux...


Problem
Get xmlBlaster (CVS) to run on my machine.

Steps Taken:

1. Got cvs downloaded as described in HTML on your website. (did this as
   	user "jerry")

2. Installed IBM JDK 1.3 using YAST (SuSE 7.0).  Confirmed with "java
   	-version"

3. Executed "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jdk1.3" to create java home... (was
   	not defined)

4. su root, "cp config/orb.properties $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/orb.properties"
   	because "jerry" did not have write/create permission.

5. Execued "java -jar lib/xmlBlaster.jar" as user jerry and got error:
   	"Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
   	lib/xmlBlaster.jar"...

Further investigation shows that the xmlblaster.jar does not exist on
my machine...

Assumptions
I Assume the the xmlBlaster.jar is part of the "executable"
distribution and not part of CVS?

I looked in to the second installation method, (acutally the one I need
to use...) but it speaks of Extending a bunch of JAVA environment
variables which are not defined!

Question 1
Since not a single JAVA_... environment variable was defined, I guess
my java development environment is not correctly installed....
(Correct?).  Or is it that in a Virgin environment I'm just to define
theese?

Question 2
I realise that this question is placed in the wrong newsgroup but....
where do I put theese exports so they get exectued at login?


Thanking you in advance for your time
Newbie Jerry

P.S.
Is it okay to HTML to format theese messages?  I don't see anyone else
doing it!  Is this 
another NO NO?