P H O E N I X

4.0

What is it?
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It is meta-server - a server kernel on top of which other servers are built.

Where is it?
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http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/phoenix

What is related to it?

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http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon - the parent project for Phoenix.

http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/framework - a service framework initiative.

http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/cornerstone - a set of reusable components that

Phoenix server applications may use.

http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/apps - a set of complete and in-progress

applications for Phoenix.

http://jakarta.apache.org/james - a mail server that runs as a Phoenix

server application.

Requirements
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-JDK1.3 or above
-To build form CVS you must set JAVA_HOME to the jdk dir (eg:/usr/bin/jdk1.3 or
c:\jdk1.3)

Note for JDK1.4 users, please remove xerces.jar from Phoenix's lib dir. This is
because JDK 1.4 comes with xerces, and Phoenix may object to two versions in the
classpath.

Distribution
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Distribution contains the following:
-phoenix-engine.jar The Phoenix kernel
-phoenix-loader.jar Phoenix loader

Distributions built above JDK1.3 will include the following:

-xerces.jar Any SAX2 parser will work. By default Xerces is used.

Installation Instructions and Documentation

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Phoenix is a framework that loads and runs servers. Without a server

plugged into it, it doesn't do anything. To run it just execute run.bat
or run.sh in the distribution bin folder. See docs/ subdirectory for further
documentation.
Licensing and legal issues
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For other legal and licensing issues, please read the included documentation.

Thanks for using Phoenix.

The Apache Jakarta Project

http://jakarta.apache.org/