In a command shell window, type the commands:

c:
cd \
jar xf c:\install\cocoon-2.1.7-src.zip

This should create a directory called c:\cocoon-2.1.7

cd \cocoon-2.1.7
dir

The instructions for installation are in the file install.txt. So read this file.

You will see that you will need the JAVA_HOME variable to be set. Check that this is the case using:

echo %JAVA_HOME%

I got the reply:

c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_01

The instructions in the file install.txt suggest you now issue the commands:

cd \cocoon-2.1.7
build

After about a minute it starts to report things to the command shell window. It is creating a lot of files. You will see lines like:

Compiling 279 source files to C:\cocoon-2.1.7\build\cocoon-2.1.7\blocks\forms\dest

This is making use of the Java compiler. It seems only to create files in subdirectories (of c:\cocoon-2.1.7) called tools and build. At another point it said:

Copying 5947 files to C:\cocoon-2.1.7\build\webapp\api\java

That took a long time to execute!

I ignored the error messages that it produced as they didn't look too important.

When it finishes it says something like:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 21 minutes 42 seconds