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If you would like to participate in the development of Cleversafe Dispersed Storage Networks, you will need to have the following development tools and libraries installed.

Tools

  • Environment: Eclipse 3.3.
  • Language: Java, jdk 1.5

Third-party Libraries

  • iSCSI Target

The jSCSI Library was extended to provide support for the dsNet iSCSI Target.

jscsi-modified-070601.jar
http://jscsi.org/
  • Background Process

The Wrapper Library is used to create Unix daemons or Windows services for the Slicestors and iSCSI Target.

wrapper.jar
libwrapper.so (native library required by the portion of the Wrapper which runs within the JVM)
http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/
  • Command Line Parsing

JSAP is used to parse arguments to the dsNet programs, which include dsgrid-create-account, dsgrid-create-vault, dsgrid-server, and dsgrid-iscsi.

JSAP-2.1.jar
xstream-1.2.2.jar (JSAP dependency)
http://www.martiansoftware.com/jsap/
  • Networking

MINA is a network application framework used to provides networking functionality for the Slicestors and iSCSI Target.

mina-core-1.1.0-sources.jar
mina-core-1.1.0.jar
mina-filter-ssl-1.1.0.jar
http://mina.apache.org/
  • Authentication

JPAM is used to implement PAM authentication on the Slicestors.

JPam-1.0.jar
libjpam.so (native library used by the JPAM Java Library)
http://jpam.sourceforge.net/
  • Logging

Log4j is used for logging and its configuration.

log4j-1.2.14.jar
http://logging.apache.org/log4j/
  • Testing

JUnit is used to create and run unit tests.

junit-4.1.jar
http://www.junit.org/
  • XML Parser

ws-commons-java5 implements several Java classes, which are a part of Java 5 and is used to parse XML files.

ws-commons-java5-1.0.1.jar
ws-commons-util-1.0.1.jar (Dependency of ws-commons-java5)
http://ws.apache.org/commons/ws-commons-java5/
  • Cryptographic Operations and Serialization

Bouncy Castle's Cryptographic library used for serialization and cryptographic operations.

bcprov-jdk15-136.jar
http://www.bouncycastle.org/
  • 10. BDB Access

je is used to access and created Berkeley Databases (BDB) to support a database-based implentation of the slice-store.

je-3.2.23.jar (Used for accessing and created Berkeley Databases (BDB))
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/je/
  • XBeans

Used to convert XML schemas into Java classes.

xbean.jar
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/
  • Unimod

Unimod is used to create code based on finite-state machine definitions.

unimod-core.jar
velocity-1.4.jar
antlr.jar
http://unimod.sourceforge.net/
  • Embedded HTTP Server and Servlet Container

Jetty is a web server used for the configuration of files from a web interface.

jetty-6.1.5.jar
jetty-util-6.1.5.jar
servlet-api-2.5-6.1.5.jar
servlet-api.jar
http://www.mortbay.org/
  • Miscelaneous Support Libraries
  • Used for Compression
bzip2.jar
  • Used for Java Subversion Support
svnkit.jar
  • Used in the Generation of Random Number
commons-math-1.1.jar