1) Run StartJetty.main() class by using executing startup.sh or startup.bat a) Be sure all the lib/jars are in the runtime classpath b) Be sure to include the resources in the runtime classpath c) Ensure you have the latest JDK 1.6+ (not JRE) in your JAVA_HOME 2) Run on Tomcat Servlet Container (Test on Tomcat 5.5) a) Deploy ctakes-gui-{release}.war to webapps dir b) unzip resources.zip to /var/tmp/ctakes/gui/resources c) create a symlink of resources directory to {tomcat.home} root dir d) add hqsldb jar to {tomcat.home}/common/lib/hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar Note: If you place the resources folder other than the {tomcat.home} on the file system, be sure to also update the META-INF/context.xml. and the NLP processor resource paths. TODO: Add to maven auto build. meta-inf/context, lib/*.jar's