Proxy

  1. Proxy
    1. swiss-proxy-knife
    2. How to build it from source
    3. Import the project into Eclipse
      1. Requirements
      2. How to import the project

Proxy is a project that consists of a few sub-projects that deal with authentication issues. The central sub-project is the SimpleProxyLib, which is used by all the other modules.

SimpleProxyLib is a library I put together after I wrote  grix. It's value is not really as a library but as a collection of code that shows how to deal with x509/certificate/proxy related stuff in a grid environment. So, if you need to create a local proxy in your code or you need to get a delegated proxy from a MyProxy server or you have to deal with voms within your (java) application SimpleProxyLib might be of interest for you. I wrote it because I found it really hard to figure out all this stuff or to find documentation and thought it would be good to have a kind of "example code" repository.

swiss-proxy-knife

The swiss-proxy-knife is a tool that allows you to do all kinds of proxy operations from the commandline:

  • create a local proxy
  • get a delegated MyProxy
  • get a slcs-certificate
  • convert any of the above to a voms-proxy
  • delegate a proxy to MyProxy
  • store a proxy to the default location on your desktop computer

For more infomation, have a look here: SwissProxyKnife

How to build it from source

# check out the source code using subversion
svn co https://projects.arcs.org.au/svn/grix/trunk/proxy

# change into the root directory
cd proxy

# build it:

mvn clean
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install

# now, let's package it up...
mvn package assembly:assembly

If you use the package in one of your projects, you'll also need to include the bouncy-castle security provider in the classpath.

Import the project into Eclipse

Requirements

  • Eclipse (preferable version ≥ 3.4
  • svn plugin (I'm using subclipse)
  • m2eclipse plugin (maven plugin for eclipse)
  • groovy plugin for eclipse (optional. For swiss-proxy-knife project)

How to import the project

  1. File → Import → Maven → Check out Maven Projects from SCM → Next
  2. SCM URL: svn  https://projects.arcs.org.au/svn/grix/trunk → Next
  3. Finish

Optional from here on (only if you want to build the swiss-proxy-knife project):

  1. Right-click swiss-proxy-knife project. Build Path → Configure Build Path…
  2. Source tab: Add folder → Select swiss-proxy-knife/src/main/groovy → OK
  3. Source tab: Default output folder → "swiss-proxy-knife/bin-groovy" → OK → Yes