On Windows, it is strongly recommended to download and install one of the two auto-installable setup.exe
files.
Make sure that you have a Java™ 1.6+ runtime installed on your machine. To check this, open a command window and type "java -version
" followed by Enter. You should get something looking like this:
C:\>java -version java version "1.7.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b147) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode, sharing)
Use a tool like WinZip, 7-Zip or Info-Zip [2] to unzip the XXE distribution inside any directory you want:
C:\> mkdir XMLmind C:\> cd XMLmind C:\XMLmind> unzip xxe-perso-5_0_0.zip C:\XMLmind> dir xxe-perso-5_0_0 ... <DIR> addon ... <DIR> bin ... <DIR> demo ... <DIR> doc ...
XXE is intended to be used directly from the xxe-perso-5_0_0/
directory. That is, you can start XXE by simply executing:
C:\XMLmind> xxe-perso-5_0_0\bin\xxe.exe
After that, you may want to add a shortcut to "C:\XMLmind\xxe-perso-5_0_0\bin\xxe.exe
" on your desktop.
Note that the bin
directory contains not only xxe.exe
, but also an equivalent xxe.bat
which may be handy if you intend to customize the way XXE is started.