Asset: Academic Survey System and Evaluation Tool

• New Release: Asset release 3.1 (see HISTORY.TXT for details)
• The first official asset release was 2.3.6 in December 2002 - we've come a long way since then.

Asset is a web-based project to create, maintain, and administer surveys. You may use our asset server at Seton Hall to try out the system. If you like what you see and would like to adopt it to your own campus's needs, return to this site to download the asset source code and installation instructions.

For more information about asset, please check

• Asset PowerPoint presentation (JA-SIG 2002 Winter conference) - does not cover features from 3.1, sorry
• Asset User Manual (in PDF format) - does not yet cover version 3
• Asset try-out (login as "guest" with password "seton hall")
• Asset Source Download (make sure to read the installation instructions)

Asset Installation Instructions

The asset project is comprised of many Java classes, servlets and otherwise, and requires a servlet-enabled web server and an instance of a MySQL database server to be running. Asset is not intended to be installed by the casual user - such users might just use our own installation for their purposes.

However, if you really want to install asset on your own system, then:

• download the source code (a "jar" file) asset3.1.jar
• uncompress the source code (type jar -xf asset3.1jar)
• change into the directory that was created (type cd Asset-3.1)
• read and print out the installation file INSTALL.TXT included with the package
• if you are upgrading from a previous version of Asset, make sure to read and printout the update instructions contained in UPDATE.TXT included with the package
• work your way through that installation file, and if necessary the update file

If you have any questions, send electronic mail to Bert Wachsmuth - I will try to answer if possible, but there's no guarantee. If you don't know what a "jar" file is, you should probably not attempt to install asset on your own system.