ZOOM Distribution Readme

How to install ZOOM?

• For most platforms, if you have JDK1.5 (J2SE 5.0) or higher installed, you can simply double-click the icon for zoom-installer.jar to start the installation process.  
• If the installation process does not start by double-clicking.  Type the following command in a console.
      java -jar zoom-installer.jar

What should you do after installation?

zoom-installer.jar is generated by IzPack, which is a Java^TM based installer generation software. 

The installer will automatically set the required environmental variables.  You can start the applications by executing the batch files in Install-Dir/bin directory.

It is highly recommended that you add the absolute path of Install-Dir/bin directory (such as C:\ZOOM\BIN) to your computer's PATH variable. This will allow you to execute the zoom commands from any working directories.

What is ZOOM project?

ZOOM project is an undergoing research project by the Software Engineering Research Lab of CTI of DePaul University. It aims to find out a better way to support Model Driven Development (MDD) by providing a series of formal modeling notations and development tools. ZOOM stands for Z-Based Object Oriented Modeling technology.

For more information, please visit our web site at http://se.cs.depaul.edu/ise/zoom

What are included in this distribution?

The first phase of development results are included in this distribution. It contains the following tools:

• zoomc
  The ZOOM parser and type checker.
• zoome
  The console mode interpreter for ZOOM.
• zoomwin
  The GUI interpreter for ZOOM.

Licensing

ZOOM is an open source project distributed under the BSD license.