ProActive is made available for download under a LGPL license. ProActive requires the JDK 1.4 or later to be installed on your computer. Please note that ProActive will NOT run with any version prior to 1.4 since some features introduced in JDK 1.4 are essential.
Download and unzip the ProActive archive
Set the JAVA_HOME variable to the Java distribution you want to use
Launch the scripts located in ProActive/scripts/unix or ProActive/scripts/windows
no other setting is necessary since the scripts given with the example take care of everything
Download and unzip the ProActive archive
Include in your CLASSPATH the following jar files ProActive/ProActive.jar, ProActive/lib/asm.jar, ProActive/lib/log4j.jar, ProActive/lib/xercesImpl.jar, ProActive/lib/components/fractal.jar, ProActive/lib/bouncycastle.jar
Don't forget to launch the JVM with a security policy file. You can also specify a log4j configuration file with the property -Dlog4j.configuration=file:pathToFile. If not specified a default logger that logs on the console will be created
Below are described the different steps in more details.
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