2 Prerequisites

In order to install or use JOTM, you will need a few very common tools for Java which you may already have:

• You'll need a Java platform
• You'll also need Ant tool for compiling and running the examples provided with JOTM
• Additionally, if you're interested to pass the test suite of JOTM, you'll need the Junit Framework.

2.1 Java

JOTM needs a Java compiler (javac command) and a Java runtime (java command).

• Sun Java Development Kits are available at http://java.sun.com/j2se/
• IBM Java Development Kits are available at http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/

JOTM is built and tested on JDK 1.3 and 1.4

2.2 Ant

JOTM uses Ant (version 1.5) for its build process and to run the examples.
Ant can be downloaded from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/. See the documentation of Ant to set it up (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/).

2.3 Junit

JOTM also uses Junit (http://junit.org/) as the framework of its test suite.
If you're interested by testing JOTM, all you have to do is to download Junit from its web site and to copy the junit.jar file into the lib/ directory of your Ant installation.