Bosco Users Guide

The current project requires a platform that supports both, Python (2.3 or later) and Java (1.4 or later). Java and Python can be dowloaded from their respective web sites: http://www.python.org and http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.

There are also two specific libraries that are needed to run Bosco:

Cheetah is a template engine, used by Bosco to easly generate code. It is available from its web site: http://cheetahtemplate.org.

Ant is a java based build tool, similar to Make but much easier. It is available from its web site: http://ant.apache.org.

In order to execute the java code generated by Bosco, i.e. the JMI implementation, some extra libraries are also needed.

While these libraries are included in the Bosco files, a different version of these files can be specified in the build.properties as we will se later.

JMI is the acronym for Java Metadata Interface.