Development Environment

So far we’ve built x.Link under Win32 and Solaris 2.8 and run it with the JBoss and Weblogic application servers. We are looking for ports to AIX, Linux and OS390 and, well, anywhere else you find Java Virtual Machines. To build you will need the following set-up

Win32

The Cygwin Unix Toolkit from Redhat, including the gcc 2.9.5 compiler and make.

JVM 1.3

Jakarta Ant

We use Eclipse as our IDE, it works well with SourceForge

You do not need Cygwin to run the agent.

Solaris

GCC 2.9.5 from Sunfreeware

(we do all Java development under Win32)

Other Environments

Your best bet is probably to download the GCC compiler if available.

Libraries

The following third party libraries are used with x.Link

Name	Homepage	Description	Version
piccolo.jar	piccolo.sourceforge.net	Compact and lightweight xml parser
org.mortbay.jetty.jar	www.mortbay.or	Jetty embedded http engine
velocity.jar	www.apache.org	Velocity template engine
jdom.jar	www.jdom.org	Java XML DOM parser	beta 8
commons-collection.jar	jakarta.apache.org	useful java data structures - needed for Jetty and x.Link
javax.servlet.jar	www.sun.com	Sun servlet library - for testing only
junit.jar		Java unit testing framework
logkit-1.2.jar		Java logging framework (used by Jetty and x.Link)

ANT Build File

There is an ant build file which will rebuild the Java side of the project.