You can download the software package from:
"\\sincro-share\private\nanospectroscopy"; Use your username (name.surname@elettra.trieste.it) and password, mapping it as a network drive on your computer. You may have to reboot your computer before this can work.
Alternatively, another copy can be found on:
"\\sincro-share\public\nanospectroscopy".
which does not require username and password.

1. Get BCSJava.zip and extract it to "C:\BCSjava". The program is ready to work. Two batch files are provided in order to allow control to the first (START_it.bat) or the second branch of the beamline (START_fr.bat).
   
   

   THE NEXT IS OPTIONAL (only needed for compiling BCSJava)

2. A "build" utility called Apache ant is used to compile BCSJava into a single jar file, and organise the source files and the various classes into subfolders.
   
   
   • Get apache-ant-1.5.3-1.zip. Extract the apache ant zip file into a dedicated directory. We suggest to unzip to:
     C:\ant\apache-ant-1.5.3-1
     
   • More recent versions of ant are found on the ant website
   
   
3. Install Java SDK SE on your computer, which you can download from the java website. We strongly advice to choose the following installation path for SDK, for example: C:\javasoft\jdk15007. In order to do this on the beamline computers, you need to have administration privileges. At the time of writing, "BCSjava" was compiled successfully using JAVA SDK 1.5.007, but fails under Java6.

1. Update the Windows path, so that ant can be invoked from the command prompt. For example, add the following line to the Windows path variable:
   " ...;C:\ant\apache-ant-1.5.3-1\bin; ...".
   
   
2. Update the Windows path, so that javac can be invoked from the command prompt. For example, add the following line to the Windows path variable:
   " ...;C:\javasoft\jdk15007\bin; ...".
   
   
3. In your Windows environment variables, create a variable "ANT_HOME" and set it to the desired "ant" home directory, e.g. "C:\ant\apache-ant-1.5.3-1".
   
   
4. In your Windows environment variables, create (or update) the variable CLASSPATH; In order to do this, please add: "..; C:\BcsJava;..." to the CLASSPATH.
   
   
5. In your Windows environment variable, create a variable "JAVA_HOME" and set it to the compiler directory, e.g. "C:\javasoft\jdk15007". This is needed to tell ant which java compiler to use.
   
   
6. Initialise ant. Open a dos window, and the command prompt just type "ant".

Compile BCSjava: open a new command prompt window, change directory to "C:\BcsJava" and type:

ant clean

which cleans the old classes, archives and folders. If the operation is successful, then type:
ant dist.