Installation

A bundle of the MUSCLE can be downloaded from the Downloads section or directly from this link. The bundled package contains the source code of the MUSCLE, documentation and precompiled Java archives (jar).

Dependencies

The core functionality of the MUSCLE is written in Java. To be able to integrate native code with the MUSCLE, there is also a native part which is written in C++. Bootstrapping and platform independent configuration is done with a highly flexible setup mechanism written in Ruby. In order to use the MUSCLE, you will need a recent Java runtime to run the MUSCLE. You can obtain it at either  http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp (Sun-Java) or  http://openjdk.java.net/ (Open-JDK). We do most of the development work with the Java SE from Sun. A recent Ruby installation can be found here:  http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/. In principle it should be possible to run the MUSCLE with JRuby instead of the standard Ruby. The Java part of the MUSCLE also uses these third-party libraries: *JADE  http://jade.tilab.com/ (base agent framework) LGPL Version 2.1 *JUNG  http://jung.sourceforge.net/ (visualization in GUI) BSD *json_simple  http://code.google.com/p/json-simple/ Apache License, Version 2.0 *jscience  http://jscience.org/ (SI-Unit support) Custom *xstream  http://xstream.codehaus.org/ (serialization and debugging) BSD The Java libraries can be installed to the provided thirdparty directory (see below). For ruby 1.8.x the json library is also required. Install with e. g. sudo gem install json. The MUSCLE does currently not work with Ruby 1.9.1 or newer.