Installation

The Nest system is written in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has to be installed on the user's computer. Current version of the Nest is compiled using OpenJDK 8 and works on both Oracle Java SE and OpenJDK version 8 and higher. Prebuilt OpenJDK can be downloaded from https://adoptopenjdk.net Originally the Java Web Start was used to run the Nest, but it is deprecated now and does not included in OpenJDK distribution.

To run Nest one needs to

• Download the latest Nest application as a zip file,
• Unpack its content in the home directory (C:\Users\username for Windows 10, /Users/username for MacOS, /home/username for Linux),
• Go to installation directory and run the Nest using nest.bat on Windows in cmd.exe or PowerShell or nest.sh in a terminal on unix-based computers (Linux, MacOS).

  One also can run Nest from the command line:
  java -jar nest.jar