Getting Started

Installation of dx.factory is quite staight forward, but as dx.factory is a Java application, it requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to be installed on your computer.

To get up and running with dx.factory you will need to:

Installing these two components is covered in the next section.

The minimum JRE version is  JRE 5.0. Just to confuse everybody, the new version of Java is called 5.0, but it is the next release following 1.4. Indeed if you install JRE 5.0 and look at the installation directory, you will see the version number is 1.5. Sun must have their reasons for a quantum leap in the version number, but I'm even more confused as to why the installation directory numbering is not consistent!

PC Requirements

Any PC running either Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 or Windows XP should do the trick

Macintosh Requirements

A Macintosh running the Macintosh OSX V10.2 operating system or later is required. OSX has the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) built in to it, but you will need to ensure that you have the latest version.

Unfortunately, Apple have no plans to support the latest JRE in the "Classic" Mac OS, so dx.factory will not run on older MAC Operating Systems.