Remote subject UI

The remote UI demo allows you to test remote subject UIs, the network connections to subject UI server. To test remote UIs, you'll need to do two things:
  1. Start the subject UI server running on the GP system. You can use the gpUIServerTest tool to start a test server.
  2. Start a remote UI client locally or from remote terminal (see below).
If everything works, when you connect to the server from the client, the client requests a subject UI block from the server and starts it. In the server side (in this case the UI server tester) will start a UI tester to test the subject UI.

There are several ways to start the subject UI. You can run it locally or remotedly with either an applet or a application.

To run subject UIs on remote terminals, the terminal must have Java support and access to GuineaPig system's java class files either from webserver (applet) or locally Java classes added to Java's class path.

You have to create a GP Java archive to be able to use remote terminals (see instructions for creating the archive below). The archive (guinea.jar) contains the Java class files the GP system uses. Copy this archive to the webserver (when using applets) or to remote terminal (application).

Making the guineapig Java class files archive (jar)

To create a JAR archive of the GuineaPig Java class files, go to the GuineaPig directory and create archive with the jar command: 
   cd /usr/GuineaPig/classes
   jar -cf <DIR>/guinea.jar guinea
If Java executables are not in your path, use /usr/java/bin/jar command instead of just jar. The <DIR> should be replaced with the name of the directory where you want to create the archive file guinea.jar.

Note that if you apply patches to the GuineaPig that replace some of the Java class files, you have to re-create the JAR file after any patches have been applied.

Running applet client

You can use the applet client either locally or remotedly. In priciple you can use any java-capable web-browser as the client. Your client should support Java 1.1.6 to work. SGI's Java appletviewer and Netscape 4.06 as well as Netscape 4.06 have seemed to work.

See example demo page to start subject UI applet.

Running subject UI client

The remote UI Client is a Java application that connects to a specific server address and starts the subject UI.
Last modified: Mon Nov 1 14:35:46 EET 1999