diff --git a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
index 084da687bf43d484f7fb87b63b03fe182c084afe..f8ffbf6ed0e51b6ddc44aec2b4a1e609ccddc480 100644
--- a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
+++ b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DM_SVN_URL_EXP_SYNC=https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/DataManagement/trunk/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer
+DM_SVN_URL=https://subversion.xray.aps.anl.gov/DataManagement
 
 execute() {
     echo "Executing: $@"
     eval "$@"
 }
 
-execute svn export $DM_SVN_URL_EXP_SYNC ExperimentSynchronizer
+# load tools
+execute svn export $DM_SVN_URL_EXP_SYNC/trunk/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer ExperimentSynchronizer
 EXPSYNC_DIR=ExperimentSynchronizer
+cd $EXPSYNC_DIR/lib
 
-cd $EXPSYNC_DIR
+# load java 7
+execute svn export $DM_SVN_URL/support/src/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz 
+JAVA_VERSION=7u51
+tar zxf jdk-${JAVA_VERSION}*.tar.gz
 
+cd $EXPSYNC_DIR
 mkdir bin
-execute javac -classpath lib/*:resources/* -d bin/ src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/*.java src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/serviceconn/*.java
+execute lib/javac -classpath lib/*:resources/* -d bin/ src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/*.java src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/serviceconn/*.java
 mkdir target
 execute jar cfm target/ExperimentSynchronizer.jar manifest.txt -C bin/ . 
 
diff --git a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/run_expSync.sh b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/run_expSync.sh
index a28432590bdb81badc0aaa1ea92f0416abb01e56..5beaefb68cf9fbbfc48cdd40b1ea727b104cbf13 100644
--- a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/run_expSync.sh
+++ b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/run_expSync.sh
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ execute() {
 }
 
 cd ExperimentSynchronizer
-execute java -jar target/ExperimentSynchronizer.jar resources/config.properties
+execute lib/java -jar target/ExperimentSynchronizer.jar resources/config.properties