KAS

What is KAS?

KAS is (or, better yet, will be) an open source Message Bus.

Setting up your development environment

1. Development is done over Eclipse IDE (Photon) with jdk-1.8_u151. Download and install both.
2. Clone the repository to c:\dev\kas.
3. Start Eclipse. Point Eclipse to c:\dev\kas_ws for its workspace folder.
4. Configure your workspace (Window > Preferences):
   a. Under Java > Installed JRE > Add the previously installed JDK.
   b. Under Java > Code Style > Clean up > IMPORT - Select c:\dev\kas\cleanup.xml
   c. Under Java > Code Style > Formattter > IMPORT - Select c:\dev\kas\formatter.xml
   d. Under General > Editors > Text Editors > Set Displayed tab width = 2; Check Insert spaces for tabs.
   
5. Import Existing Gradle projects and point Eclipse to c:\dev\kas.

Projects

Development is splitted into several projects, the output of each is a JAR file. Building is done using Gradle. Each project relies on the output of other projects. Dependecies is shown below.

Project descriptions

Project	Description
kas-infra	Infrastructure
kas-config	Base Configuration
kas-logging	Logger
kas-comm	Communication and Serialization
kas-db	DataBase access
kas-appl	Base Application
kas-mq-core	Core KAS/MQ
kas-mq-server	KAS/MQ Server
kas-mq-samples	Sample KAS/MQ Applications
kas-mq-admin	KAS/MQ Admin Console
kas-sec-core	Security

Project dependencies

Each level in the following tree represents a dependency on the previous level
kas-infra
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+-- kas-config
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+----- kas-logging
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+-------- kas-comm
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+-------- kas-appl
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+-------- kas-mq-core
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+-------- kas-db
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+----------- kas-sec-core
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+----------- kas-mq-admin
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+----------- kas-mq-samples
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+-------------- kas-mq-server