Read Me

ADE 1.0 README

Information about how to install, build, and run ADE can be found in the
INSTALL file

Additional information about ADE, what it is, how it works, references to 
publications, and answers to frequently asked questions can be found in the
doc/FAQ file

A tutorial on ADE that details how to use it, is also located in doc/

Copyright information can be found in COPYRIGHT

Note that the ADE distribution includes several jar files from other parties
for convenience (instead of asking users to download them separately).  
License information for the jars and libraries included in the lib/ directory
is located in the LICENSE file.  Additional external packages are needed for
some components to work properly, including

    http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/
        rxtx (RXTXcomm.jar, plus libs) for many serial-based servers

    http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/
        xerces (xercesImpl.jar) for DiscourseServer's Vocabber

    http://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/projects/verbnet.html
        verbnet (verbnet/VN_API.jar) for DiscourseServer's Vocabber

    http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
        festival (executable) for FestivalServer