The Simple Messaging Framework

Simple Messaging Framework Library Usage

Author: Naresh Bhatia (nbhatia@sapient.com)
Created: July 2003
Version: $Revision: 1.1 $ ($Author: nbhatia $ / $Date: 2003/07/21 03:30:50 $)

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Ant Contrib 0.3
Apache Ant 1.5.3-1
Apache Axis 1.1
Apache Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2
Apache Commons Logging 1.0.3
Apache Jakarta Log4j 1.2.8
Apache Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.24
Apache XML Xalan 2.5.1
Apache XML Xerces 2.4.0
Carbon 2.0
JBoss 3.0.4
JDOM Beta 8
JUnit 3.8.1
Servlet 2.3 API
XPP3/MXP1 1.1

Introduction

This document details the 3rd party libraries used by the Simple Messaging Framework and why they are used.

Acknowledgements

This product includes software developed by

Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)
Carbon Project (http://carbon.sourceforge.net/)
JBoss Group LLC (http://www.jboss.org/)
JDOM Project (http://www.jdom.org/)
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://java.sun.com/)

Ant Contrib 0.3

Home Page	http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib
A useful collection of Ant tasks used to build SMFW.

Apache Ant 1.5.3-1

Home Page	http://ant.apache.org
Build tool for SMFW.

Apache Axis 1.1

Home Page	http://ws.apache.org/axis
Used to send and receive SOAP messages.

Apache Commons HttpClient 2.0 Beta 2

Home Page	http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient
Used by the REST client in the Library Management System demo to send HTTP requests.

Apache Commons Logging 1.0.3

Home Page	http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging.html
Used as the logging API.

Apache Jakarta Log4j 1.2.8

Home Page	http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j
Used as the default logging mechanism. Calls to it are made through the Apache Commons Logging API.

Apache Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.24

Home Page	http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat
Used as the servlet container for sample applications.

Apache XML Xalan 2.5.1

Home Page	http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j
Used as the XSLT processor during the SMFW build process.

Apache XML Xerces 2.4.0

Home Page	http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j
Used as the main XML parser to support schema validation.

Carbon 2.0

Home Page	http://carbon.sourceforge.net
A powerful framework used for services such as configuration management, exception handling, sql utilities and more.

JBoss 3.0.4

Home Page	http://www.jboss.org
jboss-j2ee.jar used to compile ejb-utils.jar. Required only to build SMFW from source. Any library supplying the J2EE API can be substituted for this jar.

JDOM Beta 8

Home Page	http://www.jdom.org
Used by the Carbon configuration service.

JUnit 3.8.1

Home Page	http://www.junit.org
Used for unit testing.

Servlet 2.3 API

Home Page	http://java.sun.com
Used by SMFW to access HTTP requests.

XPP3/MXP1 1.1

Home Page	http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/xsoap/xpp/mxp1/
A simple and efficient XML parser/serializer used in the sample applications.