Alejandro, what Keith means is that on the CVS repository there is a 
special directory called "contrib" which contains external contributed 
packages which are not part of ECJ proper.  The GEP module is one of 
them.  If you have access to CVS you can download the most recent GEP 
sources; otherwise contact Bob Orchard for a recent snapshot.

Sean

Alejandro Rodríguez González wrote:
> The problem is that when i download the ECJ package 
> ( http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/ecj.tar.gz 
> or http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/ecj.zip ) , i don't have 
> the contrib directory inside..
> 
> Maybe am i downloading the incorrect version?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Keith Sullivan <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> 
>     The GEP package is in the contrib directory.  So Make sure that <ECJ
>     home>/contrib/gep is in your classpath.
> 
>     Keith
> 
> 
>     On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:12 +0200, Alejandro Rodríguez González wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      >
>      > I'm trying to execute some examples of GEP extension for EJC
>     developed
>      > by Bob Orchard but i'm having some problems.
>      >
>      >
>      > After search some parameter files like "gep.params" and "ec.params"
>      > and found it on koders.com <http://koders.com>, i modify the
>     test1.param example of GEP
>      > examples in order to make the example works.
>      >
>      >
>      > The problem now is that ECJ can't find the class
>      > "GEPSimpleStatistics", that, in the test1.param file is mentioned to
>      > be used by ECJ:
>      >
>      >
>      > state = ec.gep.GEPSimpleStatistics
>      >
>      >
>      > The output that i obtain is the next:
>      >
>      >
>      > ________________
>      >
>      >
>      > C:\Descargas\ecj\ecj>java -classpath ./;./start/javacsv.jar ec.Evolve
>      > -file c:\D
>     escargas\ecj18Gep\ecj18MultipleChromosomes\ec\app\gep\test1
>      > \test1.params | ECJ | An evolutionary computation system (version 18)
>      > | By Sean Luke | Contributors: L. Panait, G. Balan, S. Paus, Z.
>      > Skolicki, R. Kicinger, E. Popov ici, | J. Harrison, J. Bassett, R.
>      > Hubley, A. Desai, and A. Chircop | URL:
>      > http://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/ | Mail:
>     [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> |
>      > (better: join ECJ-INTEREST at URL above) | Date: June 23, 2008 |
>      > Current Java: 1.6.0_13 / Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM-11.3-b02 |
>      > Required Minimum Java: 1.3 Exception in thread "main"
>      > ec.util.ParamClassLoadException: Class not found:
>      > ec.gep.GEPSimpleStatistics PARAMETER: state EXCEPTION:
>      > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ec.gep.GEPSimpleStatistics at
>      > ec.util.ParameterDatabase.getInstanceForParameter(ParameterDatabase.j
>      > ava:451) at ec.Evolve.initialize(Evolve.java:362) at
>      > ec.Evolve.main(Evolve.java:627)
>      >
>      >
>      > ________________
>      >
>      >
>      > I was searching this classes, and i found that exists in EJC
>      > (
>     http://www.koders.com/noncode/fid450A0F990F704BEDED764BB1A30573181C3349C9.aspx?s=Pdef#L55
>     ), but in the package that i download from original EJC page, this
>     classes are not included, and i don't know where download they.
>      >
>      >
>      > Can anyone help me with that?
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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