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Adding jar files to weka

Recently, I had to implement a machine learning algorithm called MLRules. I found the code on the author's webpage but there was a big problem. It was in Java using the WEKA environment. I had never worked in the Java before. Above that, I had another alien named 'weka'. Initially everything seemed out of the world. I tried different things, searched on google, read wiki after wiki but there doesn't seem to be a working solution of adding new classifiers in form of .jar files to run in weka. My search on google began with query 'adding jar files to weka'. I searched and searched till the query became 'cannot add jar file to weka'. I was nearly ending an unsuccessful pursuit of the 'WEKA' when one of the results came up from the 'google code' site about adding thier code to weka. The steps were well documented. I tried working it out and ALAS!!! it started working. It took a week's time just to do a simple thing. I ran the code and it