Development
Project Site
The sourceforge project site is
sourceforge.net/projects/jstatcom
There is also additional documentation available from
there under the Docs section.
Recruitment
Developers with a Java background are more than welcome
to join the team.
If you plan to take part in the JStatCom project, just send an
email to the project admin or use the
Patch Tracker
to submit a suggested change.
API
JStatCom is constantly under development, but the
current API should be stable. Binary compatibility with
future versions is part of the development strategy.
Development Tools
Any Java development environment can be used. It must
support the current JRE version for building and
running applications and it should include a powerful
Swing GUI building tool. For convenience, the jstatcom
sourcepackage comes as an Eclipse project (with the
.classpath and .project XML
files) which can easily be imported to that IDE. A
small selection of popular Java tools:
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Eclipse, www.eclipse.org, together with the GEF,
EMF, and VE plugins for Visual GUI creation, Open
Source project sponsored by IBM
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Netbeans, www.netbeans.org, Sun's Open
Source Java IDE, freely available
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JBuilder, www.borland.de/jbuilder, Borland's
professional commercial Java development tool
In addition to a Java IDE, development of engine
modules also requires a C/C++ compiler. On Windows the
use of Microsoft Visual C++ .NET is recommended. On
other plaforms the GNU compiler should be used. The
sourcepackages contain makefiles for the GNU compiler
and Visual Studio project files (.vcproj
XML files).
Portability
JStatCom has been tested on Windows XP and Linux Suse
9.1, but all Java enabled platforms are supported by
the Java part (base package). Because engine modules
use native dlls, they pose restrictions on portability.
However, if these engines are not used then this can be
ignored. A few notes on the portability aspects of
different engines:
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Engine
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Supported Platforms
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Comments
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R Engine (RStat)
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all platforms where the R package rJava is available
(Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac)
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has been tested on Windows XP only, no jstatcom specific
dlls are required therefore should run on all
platforms where R runs with the rJava package,
only a few platform specific environment settings are needed
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Gauss Runtime Engine (GRTE)
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Windows, Linux
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Could also be ported to Solaris and AIX, because
the GRTE is available for these platforms, requires
compilation of the respective Java JNI wrapper and
of the respective Gauss gcg file
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Gauss
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Windows
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The interface uses operating system specific
services to communicate with the Gauss process, not
easily be ported to other OSses
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Ox
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all platforms, which are supported by Ox console
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precompiled versions exist for Windows and Linux,
source code for communications library is shipped,
requires setting of OX3PATH variable
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Matlab
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works with compiler versions 3, but not with
current release 4
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precompiled versions exist for Windows and Linux,
source code for communications library is shipped
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Stub (calling dlls without extra JNI wrapper)
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Windows, Linux
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precompiled versions exist for Windows and Linux,
source code for communications library is shipped
and can easily be compiled for Sun Solaris, other
platforms require adjustment of assembler code
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