Overseer License

By downloading and using any part of any distribution of this application you agree with the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The third-party projects used by the author of the project, are distributed under their corresponding licenses. Please see the LICENSE.txt file in the installation directory for more information.

Overseer Downloads

Overseer Windows Basic Distribution

This distribution contains the basic files needed to run Overseer. It does not contain any Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You must have it already installed on your computer to be able to run the program.

File size: 2.6 Mb

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Overseer Windows Full Distribution

This distribution contains the necessary files to run Overseer and also a copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.0. It also contains the source code of the application and the JavaDoc documentation files generated from the source files.

IMPORTANT: If you already have a copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or greater installed on your computer, please see the Overseer Windows Basic Distribution above.

File size: 19.6 Mb

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Overseer Linux Basic Distribution

This distribution contains the basic files needed to run Overseer. It does not contain any Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You must have it already installed on your computer to be able to run the program.

File size: 3.2 Mb

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Overseer Linux Full Distribution

This distribution contains the necessary files to run Overseer and also a copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.0. It also contains the source code of the application and the JavaDoc documentation files generated from the source files.

IMPORTANT: If you already have a copy of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or greater installed on your computer, please see the Overseer Linux Basic Distribution above.

File size: 34.4 Mb

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Overseer System Requirements

  • Windows 2000/Me/XP/Vista or Linux with KDE or Gnome
  • If you use Linux you must also have these libraries necessary for the SWT: GTK 2.2.1, ATK 1.2.0, glib 2.2.1, Pango 1.2.1, Freetype 2.1.3
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6.0 or greater. You can get it from http://java.sun.com/
    NOTE: The Windows Full Distribution and Linux Full Distribution contain a copy of the JRE so you don't have to download it.
  • If you use Linux, a Mozilla web browser is recommended in order to view MySQL Online Documentation.

Overseer Source Code

Every file release contains a folder named "src". Inside that folder you can find all the Java source code files associated with this project and the images used by the graphical user interface (GUI). For development you need to have the two .jar files from the "lib" directory in your Java CLASSPATH. However, you can also download the source code of Overseer from CVS organized as an Eclipse Java project. The CVS configuration settings are the following:

Hostname:overseer.cvs.sourceforge.net
Port:2401
Protocol::pserver:
Repository path:/cvsroot/overseer
Username:anonymous
Password:There is no password for anonymous CVS access (just hit the enter key when prompted for one).