This message is designed to assist technical support personnel who are supporting the Coeus user population throughout the UMB campus.
Coeus is a software application licensed by MIT that supports the UMB research community's needs to electronically create and route proposals for sponsored research project grants to external sponsors, especially the Federal Government.
Coeus is composed of three main modules:
UMB Faculty and Administrators will be using the Proposal Development module to create and route proposals for approval. Select individuals (primarily from the Office of Research Development) will receive access to the Institute Proposal and Award modules for “back office” transactions and reporting.
Coeus is a multi-tiered application whose user interface, written using Java Swing GUI components, resides on the user desktop. Coeus supports a “business rule” tier that runs as Java Servlets in a Tomcat application server. The database is Oracle. Coeus desktop components can execute on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The Coeus JWS service has been configured to automatically run using the specific JRE required by Coeus. For users running Windows, Java 6 must be uninstalled before running Coeus for the first time. Java 6 can be re-installed if needed for other programs after running Coeus once from the link in your myUMB portal. A planned future upgrade of COEUS from MIT will support JRE v6. Ensure that any unneeded and duplicate versions of Java are deleted to avoid memory issues.
Windows Requirements
Coeus will run on any windows platform that is certified to run the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) versions 1.4.2_11 through 1.4.2_15. Administrative privileges will be required to install the JRE. the JRE should automatically download when Coeus is accessed through the Portal.
Vista users working from home will need to load Java first before attempting Coeus.
Macintosh Requirements
Coeus requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or higher and Java 1.4.2 Update 1. Only one version of Java can run on the Mac OS. You may be prompted for an Administrator password in order to perform the updates.
For Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, the download is available on the Reference Material page of this website.
For Mac OS X 10.5, follow these installation instructions:
1. Check that your Mac's OS is current by running Software Update from the Apple dropdown menu at the top left of the screen. You may have to run Software Update more than once to get everything. At minimum, make sure you are running OS X 10.5.8 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
2. Download Coeus434.dmg
3. Double-click on the downloaded file to open and mount the virtual disk image
4. Drag the Coeus 4.3.4 file to copy it to your Mac’s Applications folder
5. Run Coeus by double-clicking on the Coeus 4.3.4 icon
6. Email Colin Hunter so you can be informed of any future updates. For Mac OS X 10.6
Coeus requires Java 1.4.2 but Apple has removed all versions of Java prior to SE 6 from OS X 10.6, preventing Coeus from running. The solution is to simply add back Java 1.4.2 but as there is no officially-supported way to do so we have to manually install the older Apple Java VM using Apple Terminal.
Open Terminal (located in Applications/Utilities) and copy/paste the following commands, hitting <Return> after each one and pausing for the command to run before entering the next one. The curl line initiates a 66 Mb download and can take a few minutes to complete. Note that you must be in an Administrator-level account with a non-blank password to run the sudo command. The line beginning with the curl command may be broken in two by the limited width of this web page. Please note that it ends with "java.1.4.2-leopard.tar.gz"
cd /tmp/
curl http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/snow_leopard_workaround/java.1.4.2-leopard.tar.gz -o "java.1.4.2-leopard.tar.gz"
tar -xvzf java.1.4.2-leopard.tar.gz
sudo mv 1.4.2 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2-leopard
cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
sudo ln -s 1.4.2-leopard 1.4
Download Coeus from here and copy it to your Applications folder.
Restart your Mac and run Coeus from the downloaded application. Please contact Colin Hunter chunter@umaryland.edu if you have any questions.
Users access Coeus via a link located on the myUMB Campus Portal. Each defined COEUS user will receive a “COEUS” link in their Enterprise Menu options. To request a new Coeus user, complete the Add a User form. A polling process runs every 20 minutes to update the Enterprise Menu link for new Coeus users.
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