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You will need a J2ME Personal Profile Java Runtime Environment on your PDA in order to start JavX. If you already have such a JAVA version installed, you can skip the downloading and installing of the IBM WebSphere Java as explained below.

To install IBM WebSphere Java on your PDA, you must download that Java version from this site and store it on your DESKTOP PC.
(Click on 'Download Trial').

Then connect your PDA to your desktop PC and start the Microsoft ActiveSync application. Install the IBM Java you just downloaded on both your desktop and PDA.

I assume you know that the PDA must be a wireless client. If not, you can stop right now.

Okay, you'll need the Direxions 2005 CD. Put that CD in your desktop PC and install both 'PxPLUS v7 for Windows' and 'JavX v2.5 Developers Kit' on your desktop PC. Make sure you still have an ActiveSync connection between the PDA and the desktop PC. Start PxPLUS V7 and go to the directory (CWDIR) where you installed the 'JavX v2.5 Developers Kit'. Underneath that directory, there should be a 'JavXPDAWiz' directory. Use CWDIR to switch to that directory. Then enter RUN "JAVX.PGN".

A graphical window should appear in which you must enter the IP address of the nthost or application server. Also enter the socket number that nthost/appserv is using and select if your server is running nthost or the application server. Then click NEXT.

In the next window, it will say that JavX will be installed in the \JAVX directory and that the program will create a shortcut in the PROGRAMS group of your PDA. You need to click INSTALL here. If you get a 'NOT ON CRADLE' error message, select 'Device Information' from the menu, close that window and try INSTALL again.

JavX will now be copied onto the PDA and a JavXAE shortcut will be created in your PDA Programs group. The next window will display some registry settings, you need to click INSTALL here as well. Then click EXIT to leave the installer.

You can now disconnect the PDA (close ActiveSync). Click Start/Programs (on your PDA). There should be a JavXAE icon. Click that and JavX will try to connect through the wireless TCP connection to your nthost/appserv server.

Now, in case you are NOT using an English/US Windows OS on the PDA, or in case your are NOT using the IBM WebSphere Java, you need to execute the following step to fix a path problem in the JavXAE link that was created on the PDA:

Connect the PDA to your Desktop and start ActiveSync. Use Explorer to browse the PDA and go to the \windows\start menu\programs directory (or whatever it is called in a On-US Windows Mobile OS) . Copy the JavXAE link into a directory on your Desktop PC and open it there with NOTEPAD (start Notepad and use the File/Open menu item to open it). It will probably look something like this:

109#"\Program Files\J9\PPRO10\bin\j9.exe" "-classpath" "\JavX\JavXAE.jar" "-jcl:ppro10" "localNetworkClientTest" "server=192.168.2.102; port=20000; guifactoryclassname=AWTGUIManagerFactory"

Now change the \Program Files\ path to the correct path where IBM J9 is installed. Save the changes, and drag the link file back into the PDA \windows\start menu\programs directory. Disconnect the PDA and try to start the JavXAE link.