1. Information

Software developed at the Community Grids Lab, Indiana University

Developers:

Shrideep Pallickara (spallick @ grids.ucs.indiana.edu)

Damodar Yemme (dyemme @ indiana.edu)

Sima Patel (skpatel@indiana.edu)

Community Grids Laboratory, Indiana University

501 N. Morton St, Suite 225

Bloomington, IN 47401

USA

http://www.communitygrids.iu.edu/ : Community Grids Lab

http://www.naradabrokering.org : The NaradaBrokering project

2. Software Product name

This is a distribution of the FINS project sponsored by the OMII. The present release is version 1.0 of the software. The FINS project is an ongoing project which aims at providing open source distributions of the WS-Eventing and WS-Notification specifications. As part of the first deliverable, this software contains an implementation of WS-Eventing. Subsequent releases of this software will also incorporate an implementation of the WS-Notification suite of specifications.

3. Description of the Software

The FINS implementation provides Grid and Web Service applications with the ability to issue notifications to each other based on the implementation of the WS-Eventing specification. Nodes can register their interests with the services in a variety of subscription formats.

4. Product History

This is the first release of the FINS software to the open-source community.

5. Platform Support

The software has been written in Java. This allows the software to run on any system that has a Java virtual machine. The source code base has been compiled with both jdk-1.4 and jdk-1.5 (it does not make use of the new reserved keywords that are part of 1.5).

6. Standards Adopted

FINS provides an implementation of the WS-Eventing specification that was released in August 2004. This specification developed jointly by Microsoft, BEA, IBM and Sun can be found at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/specification/ws-eventing/

WS-Eventing: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/eventing

SOAP: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/

WS-Addressing: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/08/addressing

7. List of Jar files

Here we include the list of JAR file. NOTE THAT These jar files are already available withIN THE DISTRIBUTION. SO THERE IS NO NEED TO TRY TO DOWNLOAD THEM.

• xmlbean.jar and xbean_xpath-2.0.0-beta1.jar can be downloaded from the Apache XMLBeans Website at http://xmlbeans.apache.org/
• commons-discovery.jar, commons-logging.jar and log4j-1.2.8.jar can be downloaded from the Apache Log4j Website at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/index.html
• axis.jar, jaxrpc-api.jar, and saaj.jar are distributed as part of Apache Axis’ distribution. The Website for the Apache Axis project is http://ws.apache.org/axis/
• jaxrpc-impl.jar is part of Sun’s JWSDP distribution available at http://java.sun.com/webservices/
• xercesImpl.jar is part of Apache’s Xerces Parser. This is available at http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/

• saxon8.2.jar, saxon8.2-jdom.jar, saxon8.2-sql.jar and saxon8.2-xom.jar correspond to jars that are part of version 8 of the saxon XPath/XQuery parser. The version that is compatible with XmlBeans is the version 8.2 of this software which is available from http://saxon.sourceforge.net/
• dom.jar and jaxp-api.jar. Related to the Java API for XML Processing. Saxon needs JAXP 1.3. This can be obtained from https://jaxp.dev.java.net/
• jsr173_api.jar JSR 173 introduces new Streaming APIs for XML (StAX) which is a Java based API for pull-parsing XML. This is also part of Sun’s JWSDP release.
• NaradaBrokering.jar is part of the NaradaBrokering distribution and is available at http://www.naradabrokering.org .
• jug-uuid.jar corresponds to the implementation of the UUID generation algorithm. This is available through the project website at http://www.doomdark.org/doomdark/proj/jug/

8. Folder Structure

9. Known Issues

There are some specific instructions related to the deployment of these specifications within the Axis infrastructure. Some of the general problems with Axis (up until 1.2 RC3) while deploying WS specifications have been summarized in a companion document in the docs directory of this distribution.

10. Licensing and IPR

This software is distributed under the Indiana University Advanced Research & Technology Institute (ARTI) open source license.

Software License, Version 1.0

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1) All redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, the list of authors in the original source code, this list of conditions and the disclaimer listed in this license;

2) All redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaimer listed in this license in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution;

3) Any documentation included with all redistributions must include the following acknowledgement:

“This product includes software developed by the Community Grid Labs. For further information contact the Community Grid Labs at http://communitygrids.iu.edu/.”

Alternatively, this acknowledgement may appear in the software itself, and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.

4) The name Indiana University or Community Grid Labs or NaradaBrokering, shall not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission from Indiana University. For written permission, please contact the Advanced Research and Technology Institute (“ARTI”) at 351 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202.

5) Products derived from this software may not be called NaradaBrokering, nor may Indiana University or Community Grid Labs or NaradaBrokering appear in their name, without prior written permission of ARTI.

Indiana University provides no reassurances that the source code provided does not infringe the patent or any other intellectual property rights of any other entity. Indiana University disclaims any liability to any recipient for claims brought by any other entity based on infringement of intellectual property rights or otherwise.

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