• Lab 1:
    • For this lab you will turn the macro you wrote for Lab 3 in the Macros - Part 2 (Graphics) module into a webstart application.
      • So that everyone is on the same page just start by copying the Lab 3 solution and saving it as webstartlab.mm and webstartlab.mmp into the mcr area of your TRAIN option tree. 
        graphicslab3.mm  --> webstartlab.mm
graphicslab3.mmp --> webstartlab.mmp
      • Do a quick UPDATE to add WEBSTARTLAB to the dictionary.
    • What you need to do:
      1. Start by copying the sample Web Start JNLP file page $NMROOT/htdocs/shell.jnlp to your $NMROOT/jars directory (you will need to right-click on the link and select "Save Link As..." otherwise it will try to launch Java Web Start). Save the page as $NMROOT/jars/xxx_webstart.jnlp substituting your initials for xxx.
      2. Copy the sample web page with links to the JNLP file (xxx_webstart.html) to your $NMROOT/jars directory (you will need to right-click on the link and select "Save Link As..."). Save the page as $NMROOT/jars/xxx_webstart.html again substituting your initials for xxx.
      3. Edit the <your_initials>_webstart.html file to change the link (<a href="...">) to match your initials.
      4. Now edit the <your_initials>_webstart.jnlp file...
        1. At the top of the file, change the href="..." to a relative link to your .jnlp file (i.e. xxx_webstart.jnlp again substituting your initials for xxx) and codebase="..." to a local file URL for your $NMROOT directory (i.e file:///home/student/nxmxxx).
          Note: The file URL has three forward slashes after the colon.
        2. Add an entry for the nxm-train.jar file. It will look similar to the one for nxm-sys.jar but will omit the main="true" part.
        3. Under <resources>, add a new <property...> tag as shown below.
          <property name="OPTS" value="TRAIN,SYS"/>
          (This sets the PATH correctly to include TRAIN and SYS option trees.)
        4. Change <argument>...</argument> so that it runs your macro (webstartlab) rather than shellgui.
      5. Build the nxm-train.jar JAR file. You can do this by running... 
        nM> make all train
      6. Point your web browser to your xxx_webstart.html file:
        i.e. file:///home/student/nxmxxx/jars/xxx_webstart.html
      7. You can also run your Java Web Start application without a web browser with the javaws command:
        javaws file:///home/student/nxmxxx/jars/xxx_webstart.html