There are a number of ways that the ROES Client application can be launched: From a link on a web page, from the Java Web Start application or from a Shortcut on the desktop or elsewhere in your system.
The first time you launch the application it will happen by clicking on a link on your Photo Processing Lab’s web site. When you click the link the ROES system will check to see if you have a proper version of Java installed on your machine. If you do not, it will first download and run a Java Installer.
Click on yes to install Java on your machine. When you click yes the system will then proceed to download the Java installer. This is a fairly large download and only happens the first time you run the application (unless you subsequently delete Java from your machine).
When the installer is downloaded it will run and the installer's Welcome dialog will be presented.
Click on the Next button to proceed with the installation. This will bring up the Java Licensing Agreement.
Click the Yes button to agree to the license and proceed with the installation. The installer will then prompt you as to where you would like to install Java; offering you a default path.
Select you destination and click the Next button. The installer will prompt you for which browsers the Java Plug-in should be the default Java runtime.
Select the browser that you intend to use and click the Next button. At this point the installer will install all the necessary Java components into your system.
When it is complete the ROES Client application will be launched using a component of the Java you just installed called Java Web Start.
When the application is launched what actually happens is that a request is made to Java Web Start to launch the application. The first thing that Java Web Start does is verify that you have the latest version of the application that you are running and if you do not it will download it. Since this is the first time you have launched the ROES Client application it will need to download it. The ROES Client application is fairly small and should download quickly to your machine.
When the application has been downloaded, Java Web Start will alert you to the fact that the application is requesting unrestricted access to your machine and ask you if you want to allow the application to run.
In this case unrestricted access to your machine means that the application will be able to read and write files to your local machine. This is necessary for the ROES Client to read your image files and save your preferences so click on the Start button to launch the application.
The second time that you launch the ROES Client, Java Web Start will ask if you would like to create shortcuts to the application.
From this point on, if you created a shortcut, you
can simply double click on a shortcut to launch the application.
If problems are encountered during this process, please refer to
the
TroubleShooting
section.