Installing the IBM JMF MultiPlayer Bean

Software Requirements

The JMF MultiPlayer Bean requires the JMFPlayer Bean.  The jar file for the JMFPlayer Bean, JMFPlayer.jar, is included in the zip file for the MultiPlayer Bean.  For documentation for the JMFPlayer Bean, please download the JMFPlayer Bean zip.  Applets made with this Bean require a Java 1.1-compatible browser or the JDK 1.1 Applet Viewer.  In addition, you need to download and install the Java Media Framework 1.1 if it has not been installed.  To get more information about JMF,  visit the Java Media Framework website.

The JMF MultiPlayer Bean sample applet requires:

The JMF MultiPlayer Bean has been tested in these environments:

To install the JMF MultiPlayer Bean:

  1. Unzip the file MultiPlayer.zip to a local directory.
  2. Extract all the files contained in the ZIP file, to a  local directory of your choice.
  3. Add JMFPlayer.jar to your CLASSPATH. Also add jmf.jar if it does not already appear in your classpath (located in the \lib subdirectory under the directory where you installed the JMF).
  4. Make sure that the JMFPlayer.jar for the JMFPlayer bean has been imported into your favorite Java builder.
  5. Import MultiPlayer.jar into your favorite Java builder.

Documentation is provided in the ZIP file. Open index.htm in your extract subdirectory.

To import the extracted files into VisualAge for Java

(This section assumes that jmf.jar and JMFPlayer.jar have already been imported; if not please import them first.  Install instructions can be found with the documentation for the JMFPlayer Bean.)

  1. Open IBM VisualAge for Java.
  2. Import MultiPlayer.jar into the project you use to contain all imported beans and samples.
  3. Add the JMF MultiPlayer Bean to the palette in a category of your choice.
  4. See Creating a JMF MultiPlayer applet  in VisualAge for Java for more details.