Installation of NewGenLib on windows platform

(Revised on 14th January 2007)

System requirements

Hardware: Pentium 4 or equivalent, 1GB RAM and 40GB Hard disk

Software: Windows 2000prof, 2000 Adv Server, XP Home, XP Prof, and 2003 server

Hardware: Pentium 3 or equivalent, 128MB RAM, and 1 GB of min hard disk

Software: Windows 98/ME/2000prof/2000adv server/XP home/XP Prof/2003/Red hat Linux 8.0/9.0/10

Download J2SE Software Development Kit (SDK) from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Install the j2sdk 1.4.2. (It may be installed into any drive. For the sake of installation notes we will assume that you installed it in C: drive)
After installation check your C: drive, you will now find a directory name j2sdk1.4.2_XX (XX is the update number, if you installed J2SE v 1.4.2_16, the directory name will be j2sdk1.4.2_16
Create an environmental variable named JAVA_HOME and value is C:/j2sdk1.4.2_XX. The below are the instructions to create an environmental variable\
- Go to desktop, right click on My Computer and click on properties.
- Go to Advanced tab, and click on Environmental Variables
- Click on New button in the System variables area
- Variable name(use all capital): JAVA_HOME
- Variable value: C:\j2sdk1.4.2_XX
- And click on Ok button at all places

Download and install Postgresql v8.0 database from http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.14/win32/. While installing Postgresql, in one of the installation steps you are asked to select contrib modules, please select dbsize and tsearch2.

Download the backupinplain.sql from the sourceforge.net
Start ->Program->Postgressql 8.0 -> PG Admin III
Double click on Postgres database server and enter password given at the time of installation
Right click on databases and click on New Database. Use this below parameters
- Name: newgenlib
- Owner: postgres
- Encoding: UNICODE
- Table space: pg_default and click on Ok button
Go to windows command prompt.(Start -> Run -> type cmd for winxp and click on ok)
In the command prompt go to Postgresql installation directory bin folder
Now type this following command without quotes "psql -d newgenlib -U postgres". Using this command you are connecting to newgenlib database using postgres user name. Now press enter key. You will be promted to enter the password, please do so.
Now type this command without quotes "\i C:/backupinplain.sql". Presuming that in step 1 you saved backupinplain.sql in the C: drive. Now press enter. This will create the tables and all default values.

NewGenLib uses Jboss application server 3.2.1 which can be downloaded from www.jboss.org. However we made some changes and made the application server ready for use. Download jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24.zip from sourceforge.net
Extract the contents of jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24.zip into any drive. Please note that it must not be extracted into any folders, it must be extracted into a drive directly. If you extracted the contents of jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24.zip into D: drive, you will now see a directory named jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24 in the D: drive
Download newgenlib.ear from sourceforge.net and into jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24/server/default/deploy directory

Download NewGenLibFiles.zip from sourceforge.net
Extract the contents of NewGenLibFiles.zip into C: drive only
Setup NewGenLib parameters
- Open C:\NewGenLibFiles\SystemFiles\Env_var.txt. Set JBOSS_HOME to the correct drive
- IPADDRESS={IPADDRESS OF THE SERVER}

Download J2SE Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Install it on the clients where librarian's interface is required
Open Internet Explorer and in the address bar enter http://{ipaddress of the server}:8080/newgenlibctxt/LaunchApplication
In Security Warning, click on Start button
In the server details, enter the ipaddress of the server and click on Ok Button
In Desktop integration click on Yes button.
For initial login, please use '1' as user id and 'abc' as password without the quotes.

Web OPAC can be accessed from the URL http://{ipaddress of the server}:8080/newgenlibctxt