| 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. |
| * REGISTRY - The persistent RMI naming service. |
| * RMID - The persistent RMI activation daemon, supports the |
| java.rmi.activation package. |
| |
| == Security tools == |
| |
| Security tools (currently) are used for signing and verifying JAR files |
| as well as (planned) generating and managing cryptographic tokens and |
| credentials. |
| |
| The list of individual tools, the name of their main class that should be |
| invoked by the Java launcher, and a summary of what they provide follows: |
| |
| * jarsigner gnu.classpath.tools.jarsigner.Main |
| A drop-in replacement for the "jarsigner" tool. |
| |
| |
