The Java examples are meant to be run from a Web server. Athena isn't set up to run individual Web servers, but you can run a Java client and server on the same machine for demo purposes. Due to a design limitation, the user needs write permission within the java part of the software tree. To deal with this, we make a local copy of the installation tree rooted in a temporary location /var/tmp/demo, To completely delete this when you are done, do: rm -fr /var/tmp/demo To run the Java demos this way: add opendx_v4.4 source /mit/opendx_v4.4/envsetjava cd /var/tmp/demo/java/server/bin ./startserver (to start Java server) ./stopserver (to stop Java server) Start Firefox by running: dxdemo-firefox (this uses a script that sets environment variables for Java) go to location: file:///var/tmp/demo/java/htmlpages/Status.html and try clicking on links to the various examples. These may work sometimes and not others. You may find that a process dxexec is using up a large fraction of the cpu- this seems to indicate that the system is "hung"- to recover kill the dxexec process, then stop and restart the server as above.