Installation

On this page you find install instructions for Alida in Java.
For information about the C++ implementation refer to the C++ page to be found here.

Running Alida's operator runners and Grappa from command line

Extract the download Alida_bin.zip and change the current working directory to the top level directory of the extracted files.

You can start grappa using

tcsh ./runAlida.tcsh 

or

bash ./runAlida.bash

If you grant execute permissions to these scripts you can start them directly, e.g.

./runAlida.tcsh

If you in addition modify the variable ALIDA_HOME in these scripts you can start them from any any directory.

To start the graphical user interface to configure and start operators you may use

./runAlida.tcsh guioprunner

The command line interface is invoked, e.g., via

./runAlida.tcsh oprunner -h

which displays the help message.

Using Alida as a library in your own code

For using Alida as a library in your own code the most easy way to fulfill all requirements and dependencies is to use Maven.
Since Alida version 2.4 we offer a template Maven project which you can use as a starting point for your work:

• Maven-Template Project: zip
  

Just unzip the archive to a directory of your choice and follow the instructions in the README file included.
The project already defines all repositories and dependencies required to use Alida's functionality.