Java and BlueJay Installation Instructions

Setting Up Your Environment 1) Install Java: a) Visit this website: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp b) Select the Java JDK 5.0 with Java EE and download it to your desktop. c) After the download is completed, select the file on your desktop to install Java d) If you see Unsupported Installation platform detected, press next. e) Press next from the welcome page. f) Press yes on the software license agreement and press next. g) The default installation directory shows: C:\Sun\SDK. You can just press next, or change the directory to a desired directory of your choice. h) On the admin configuration screen, press next with don't prompt for admin user name and password selected. Input a desired password. I inputted "adminadmin". i) unselect register application server, and unselect add bin directory to path. Press next. j) Press install now. 2) Setting your environmental variable: a) On your Computer Icon on your desktop or from your directory tree in Explorer you should select your right mouse button and select properties. b) Select Advanced Settings c) Select Environment Variables d) Under user variables you should see a variable called PATH. (If you don't, you should select New and create a variable called path. You can also find this variable under your system variables) e) Press Edit after selecting the PATH variable. f) If you already have data for the PATH variable, you should go to the end of the data list, and put a semicolin (;) at the end. You should put the new path information after the semicolin. g) You should put the path for the variable that goes to your JAVA bin directory that contains the javac.exe file. For example, if you used the C:\Sun\SDK directory, you should put: C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin for your Path variable. 3) Install BlueJay: a) Visit this website: http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html b) Select bluejsetup-251.exe for Windows to download it to your desktop c) Select the file on your desktop after you download it d) Press Next from the installation window e) Select the directory where you want to install BlueJay. The default is c:\bluej which should be okay. f) Press Next g) Press Next from the select Start Menu h) Press next and keep the Create a desktop icon selected i) Press install j) Press finish k) Launch BlueJ or select it from your desktop. If you see "No suitable Java JDKs were found..." Press okay, and select browse. You should browse to this Java version. C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin or to the place you installed your Java. If you see BlueJ has found the following suitable Java version, select it and press launch. l) Open BlueJ and make sure when you press Project->newProject that something happens. If nothing happens, you need to make a configuration change. You should see a browser window open. Locate the bluej.defs file in the blueJay directory. Open it up with notepad. Locate #bluej.lookAndFeel=crossplatform and remove the # symbol. Save the file. Open up BlueJay again. Now it should work.