1 The GNU Classpath tools are stored in the tools.zip. They can be invoked by
2 putting this archive into classpath and specifying the tool main class as the
3 class to run (parameters usually follow). The current release contains the
8 GIOP tools are used for creating the applications that use GIOP communication
9 protocol. It provides necessary support for org.omg.* and javax.rmi.*
12 All GIOP tools support the --help option, for instance:
13 java -cp tools.zip gnu.classpath.tools.giop.IorParser --help
15 The list of the currently available GIOP tools (name matches the main
16 class in gnu.classpath.tools.giop package):
18 * GRMIC - RMI-IIOP stub and tie generator.
19 * NameService - GIOP transient naming service (this tool is called
20 tnameserv in Sun's package).
21 * NameServicePersistent
22 - GIOP persistent naming service (this tool is called
23 orbd in Sun's package).
24 * IorParser - Parses the stringified form of the interoperable
25 object references (IOR's).
29 RMI tools provide support for java.rmi package. All tools support
30 the --help key by printing more information, for instance:
31 java -cp tools.zip gnu.classpath.tools.rmi.RMIC --help
33 The list of the currently available RMI tools (name matches the main tool class
34 in gnu.classpath.tools.rmi package):
36 * RMIC - RMI stub and tie source code generator (complements
37 the ASM based bytecode generator in the separate
38 cp-tools project). This tool is only needed for
39 research and backward-compatibile applications, as
40 Classpath supports the 1.5 feature to replace such
41 stubs by proxy classes.
42 * REGISTRY - The persistent RMI naming service.
43 * RMID - The persistent RMI activation daemon, supports the
44 java.rmi.activation package.
48 Security tools (currently) are used for signing and verifying JAR files
49 as well as (planned) generating and managing cryptographic tokens and
52 The list of individual tools, the name of their main class that should be
53 invoked by the Java launcher, and a summary of what they provide follows:
55 * jarsigner gnu.classpath.tools.jarsigner.Main
56 A drop-in replacement for the "jarsigner" tool.