Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wicked Problems

GSmEditor -- software from Global Sensemaking

Try out the GSmEditor prototype. You can't do anything useful with it yet other than get a feel for the user experience and what it might do in the future. I'm offering it now as a way to generate ideas and stimulate thinking about GSm tools.

Feedback will be appreciated. You'll see some at the bottom of the wiki page.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Klein on August 12, 2008 at 19:57

Any thoughts on how to run this on a Mac (OS 10.5.4)? I opened up the Terminal utility, entered the suggested command line, and got the following error:

Macintosh:~ markklein$ java -jar "/GSmEditor/dist/GSmEditor.jar"
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/GroupLayout$Group
at gsmeditor.GSmEditorApp.startup(GSmEditorApp.java:73)
at org.jdesktop.application.Application$1.run(Application.java:171)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

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Permalink Reply by Andy Streich on August 13, 2008 at 1:06

Short answer: You need Java6.

Seems that Apple has only recently made that available for the Mac, and then not for all Macs. Here's a link to the Apple download for Java6. Note: they say, "This release does not change the default version of Java. This release is only for Mac OS X 10.5.2 and later, and should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X. This release is for 64-bit, Intel-based Macs only and cannot run on PowerPC-based or 32-bit Intel-based Macs." (Ouch!)

If I need to do a Java5 build, let me know.