In download section you can get the source files for  XAL Designer Tool. Through it you can draw the automaton on which a XAL application is based. In order to compile the source files you will need the last versions of Java JDK (go to the website) and of the ANT tool (go to the website). In the following, a small tutorial about how to install and use the XAL Designer Tool.

First of all, be sure Java SDK and ANT are already present in your system, otherwise install them.

At this point download the source files of XAL Designer Tool and extract them in some directory of your file-system. With a terminal, change directory where you have just extracted the source files. In order to compile them and run the tool for the first time, run the following command:

ant

It will read the instructions for building the tool in the file build.xml and will compile and run XAL Designer Tool for the first time. In order to run the tool again, change again directory where you extracted the XAL Designer Tool source files and execute the command:

java -jar build/XALTool.jar

Have fun with XAL