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Getting Started

This tutorial will guide you through the initial steps of installing and using jasima® to create and run simulation experiments of an existing experiment class, and covers

• Installation
• Creating a New Simulation Experiment
• Running a Simulation Experiment using jasima® GUI

All screenshots have been taken on a system running Windows 8, Eclipse Luna (4.4) and Excel 2013, and may differ slightly from what you see on your screen. The best way to use this guide is to work through the sections step-by-step without skipping any section.

Before proceeding with the installation of jasima®, please make sure that Java SE Runtime Environment and Eclipse are installed on your system. You can find the latest versions at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

and

https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

Tutorials

This is a list of available tutorials.

Basics

• GettingStarted - create a Java project that uses Jasima
• RunningAnExperiment - create, run and analyze a simple experiment
• AdvancedExperiments - run an experiment a number of times with varying parameters

Advanced

• ShopFloorSimulation - main features of the simulation explained
• NewExperiments - creating your own experiment classes

Manually building and installing Jasima (outdated?)

jasima® can either be downloaded as a source archive or checked out directly from the SVN server.

After obtaining the source code, jasima® can be installed using mvn install or an IDE. This will run many tests cases, which will take roughly ten minutes and can be skipped using the parameter -Dmaven.test.skip=true. Likewise, adding -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true will skip Javadoc generation. The following files will be created:

• target/apidoc/* - API documentation (can be skipped)
• target/jasima-main-VERSION-javadic.jar - compressed API documentation (can be skipped)
• target/classes/* - compiled jasima® classes
• target/jasima-main-VERSION.jar - compressed jasima® classes
• target/jasima-main-VERSION-sources.jar - compressed source coode
• target/lib/* - external dependencies of jasima® The install target will also copy the generated JAR files to your local repository. If that's not intended, use mvn package instead, which accepts the same parameters and will generate the same set of files.

Although the build in the local repository will be preferred over any remote repository, it is a good idea to edit the pom.xml and add a version postfix when making code changes.