| 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. | |