Catena

CATENA v1.0 README Updated Jan 9th, 2017 by Flavio Esposito

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What is CATENA

CATENA is the system implementation of our asynchrnous implementation of the Chain Instantiation Protocol (CIP) for Consensus-based Distributed chain instantiation.

DISTRIBUTION

The distribution tree contains:

README.TXT --this file build.xml --used by ant Manifest --for generating jar file log4j.properties --used for CATENA.log file options src/ --source files config/ --configuration files (including events.txt) javadoc/ --java api reference classes/ --compiled code jar/ --jar files to run with >java -jar file.jar

COMPILATION AND RUN

Compiling this package requires Ant and Java 1.5. These can be downloaded respectively from:
http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/

• compile ant
• start dns ant dns
• start isd ant isd
• start service provider ant sp
• make jar file for command line running ant jarcmd
• make jar file for gui running ant jargui

CONFIGURATION

pnode.properties -- configuration for each physical node events.txt -- events configuration