JGridstart/Developers

NEWS for December 2012: join the jGridstart Collaborathon! more information

<sidebar>

• jGridstart
  • JGridstart|Home
  • JGridstart/Help|Help
  • JGridstart/Support|Support
• jGridstart for ...
  • JGridstart/Certificate_Authorities|Certificate Authorities
  • JGridstart/Developers|Developers

</sidebar>JGridstart is an open source project, licensed under the GPL (version 2 or later). It was developed at Nikhef as part of the BiG Grid project.

• Official releases
• Code repository is at Github
• Latest development build (java web start file)
  • interfaces with a test certificate authority to avoid interfering with operations (source code)
• Mantis bug tracker
• Continuous integration by Travis-CI

Developer documents

• On jGridstart's authentication processes, and integration with Confusa
• Javadoc API documentation
• Used technologies
• Notes on browser certificate installation
• What's inside the ~/.globus directory
• How BouncyCastle is used together with Java Web Start, and general Java Web Start notes.
• Notes on Java user agent strings
• See which client certificate is installed in your web browser
• Cumberless strong PKCS#12 cryptography using PKCS12KeyStoreUnlimited
• Other notes, and remarks of RAs

Building from source

JGridstart's source can be found at github. To build the latest development version from source, make sure that you have installed a Java development kit (JDK) and Maven, then run:

 git clone https://github.com/biggrid/jGridstart.git
 cd jGridstart
 mvn install

The current 'final' product can be found in jgridstart-small/target/jgridstart-small-<version>.jar (together with a bcprov-<jdk>-<version>.jar). Please see the README for more information.

jGridstart's main application is in jgridstart/, and it can be run from there using the shellscript jgridstart.sh (or jgridstart.bat on Windows).

Related websites

• Certificate Authority Operations WG
• Related software
  • Certificate Management Wizard is a wizard for setting up the grid; much more complex than jGridstart both in functionality and user-interface.
  • Grid Tools
  • SpectroGrid2 with a java web start based certificate manager (also here)
  • JaBaCATs Java Basic Certificate Authority Tools
  • Portecle - GUI to create, manage and examine keystores, keys, certificates, requests, revocation lists and more.
  • KeyTool IUI the cryptography GUI tool
  • gridshib-ca contains a java web start tool that installs user certificates
  • Grix is a Java gui application to help users handle security related tasks within a grid environment
  • CSRGenerator is a Java gui wizard to submit a CSR, implementing a subset of jGridstart's features
  • libbrowser is a Java library for accessing Internet Explorer and Mozilla keystores read/write(!) using native calls to dll/so.