The purpose of this project is to perform research & development on the Java 6 SystemTray class. This project will put a small icon in the operating system's system tray. When you right-click on it, various miscellaneous stuff is available.
At some point, the project might be updated to more of a plugin model making it easy to add more item's to the tray's menu. Right now, however, everything in the tray's menu is hard coded in the application.
Run the self-executing JAR file which comes with the binary download.
c:\>java -jar ferris-tray-x.y.z.jar
To run Ferris Tray automatically on windows startup, go to this registry directory:
/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run
Then add a new string value similar to this (of course replace directory paths to match your system):
"C:\java\1_6_0_14\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "C:\Program Files\Ferris\ferris-tray-0.0.1\ferris-tray-0.0.1.jar"