Ptolemy II 10.0.1

Ptolemy II 10.0.1 Web Edition Download

This download of Ptolemy II uses a web launching tool called Web Start that makes installation and updates particularly simple.

Quick Start

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Installation Details

Below are more detailed instructions.

Web Start is a product from Sun that is used to download the Ptolemy II 10.0.1 Web Edition.

Sun's Java Web Start is included in version 1.6 or later of Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK).

In other words, If you have Java 1.6 or later installed, then Web Start is already installed!

  1. This web page attempts to detect whether Web Start is already installed. If the Quick Start section above has an orange button that says "Launch", then click it to lauch the Ptolemy II Web Start version. If Java can't be found, then download and Install Java from Oracle (15.2Mb) and then
    Install Ptolemy II 10.0.1 Web Edition (~111Mb)
  2. The download is roughly 111Mb. About 27 Mb of the application download is consumed by the HTML documentation of the Ptolemy II Java classes.
  3. After the download completes, you will be prompted with a window that states that the certificate from University of California Berkeley is valid. You should hit the Start button to proceed with start up.

Note that individual demos are available as Web Start applications, see the web copy. However, the individual Web Start demos are primarily for viewing the models, they do not include the full editor.

Places to go

This page covers installing Ptolemy II via Web Start.

Other formats include: