Zelix KlassMaster

Installation

Zelix KlassMaster 5.2 is distributed in either a zip or tar.gz archive. In Windows both the tar.gz and zip files can be expanded using WinZip. To expand the tar.gz archive in Unix use the tar then the gzip utilities. The syntax is gzip -d ZKM.tar.gz then tar vxf ZKM.tar.

When you expand the distribution archive, you should get

Note that Zelix KlassMaster requires Java 5 (ie. JDK 1.5 or better). The cleanest way to run Zelix KlassMaster is use the -jar parameter. Alternatively, you can put ZKM.jar into the classpath. Note that it is not enough just to put the directory containing ZKM.jar into the classpath. (The file ZKM.class exists as a separate file and as a file within ZKM.jar. The separate file exists purely to catch classpath errors and can be safely ignored.)

You run Zelix KlassMaster by telling Java to run the com.zelix.ZKM class. Typically you should give the JVM more than the default amount of memory to work with. If you use the -Xmx256m parameter then you will give the JVM 256MB of memory which should be adequate for most purposes. However, you should be sure not to give the JVM more memory than is physically available. Otherwise performance will deteriorate dramatically as the JVM starts to use virtual memory.

If you have Start Zelix KlassMaster in this way
NOT added ZKM.jar to the system classpath type java -Xmx256m -jar ZKM.jar at a command prompt
added ZKM.jar to the system classpath type java -Xmx256m ZKM at a command prompt

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