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| author | Audrius Meskauskas <audriusa@Bioinformatics.org> | 2006-03-08 21:17:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Audrius Meskauskas <audriusa@Bioinformatics.org> | 2006-03-08 21:17:50 +0000 |
| commit | 90e8ed1de1ac64171ffa6bce109150c563e23406 (patch) | |
| tree | 3339449e9f622aaa78fb69f5f902c69cf8a82fea /tools/README | |
| parent | 0fdf174609352759e44b752cc2f6337bc39826bc (diff) | |
| download | classpath-90e8ed1de1ac64171ffa6bce109150c563e23406.tar.gz | |
2006-03-08 Audrius Meskauskas <AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org>
PR 26584
* tools/Makefile.am (install-data-local,
uninstall-local): Install/uninstall the tools/README only.
* tools/gnu/classpath/tools/giop/README: Updated.
* tools/README: New file.
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diff --git a/tools/README b/tools/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..de8c2c5b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +The GNU Classpath tools are stored in the tools.zip. They can be invoked by +putting this archive into classpath and specifying the tool main class as the +class to run (parameters usually follow). The current release contains the +following tools: + +== GIOP tools == + +GIOP tools are used for creating the applications that use GIOP communication +protocol. It provides necessary support for org.omg.* and javax.rmi.* +packages. + +All GIOP tools support the --help option, for instance: + java -cp tools.zip gnu.classpath.tools.giop.IorParser --help + +The list of the currently available GIOP tools (name matches the main +class in gnu.classpath.tools.giop package): + +* GRMIC - RMI-IIOP stub and tie generator. +* NameService - GIOP transient naming service (this tool is called + tnameserv in Sun's package). +* NameServicePersistent + - GIOP persistent naming service (this tool is called + orbd in Sun's package). +* IorParser - Parses the stringified form of the interoperable + object references (IOR's). + +== RMI tools == + +RMI tools provide support for java.rmi package. All tools support +the --help key by printing more information, for instance: + java -cp tools.zip gnu.classpath.tools.rmi.RMIC --help + +The list of the currently available RMI tools (name matches the main tool class +in gnu.classpath.tools.rmi package): + +* RMIC - RMI stub and tie source code generator (complements + the ASM based bytecode generator in the separate + cp-tools project). This tool is only needed for + research and backward-compatibile applications, as + Classpath supports the 1.5 feature to replace such + stubs by proxy classes. + + +
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