Installation Guide

Read the User's Manual for detailed instruction of installing and running hypercast.

You can download the HyperCast 2.0 software ("hypercast2.0_release.zip") from
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/hypercast/download.html.
Download one of the following two compressed archives. The files in the archives are identical:

· hypercast2.0_release.zip(best for Windows platforms)

· hypercast2.0_release.tar.gz (best for Unix platforms)

Windows Users:

1. Create a directory, e.g. "hypercast2.0" and download "hypercast2.0_release.zip" into this directory.

2. Extract "hypercast2.0_release.zip" into this directory with a package such as WinZip.

Unix Users:

1. Create a directory, e.g. "hypercast2.0" and download "hypercast2.0_release.tar.gz" into this directory.

2. Create a terminal and change to the created directory.

3. Extract "hypercast2.0_release.tar.gz" with the following command:

gunzip –c hypercast2.0_release.tar.gz | tar –xvf -

The archives "hypercast2.0_release.zip" and "hypercast2.0_release.tar.gz" are identical and contain the following files:

hypercast2.0_release.jar	a jar file that contains all Java classes of the HyperCast 2.0 software
parser.jar	a jar file that contains the Java classes to process XML Document
jaxp.jar	Java API for XML Parsing
hypercast.prop	The configuration file for HyperCast overlay sockets. The content of the configuration file is listed in the Appendix of this manual
User-manual.pdf	This User manual in PDF format
readme.txt	Read me file to quickly set up hypercast2.0
hypercast.prop.default	A copy of the configuration file “hypercast.prop”.
HelloWorld_CallBack.java	Source code of a sample program
HelloWorld_NoCallBack.java	Source code of a sample program