= HAMcast - Developers Webpages =

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== Overview ==

HAMcast provides a system architecture for a universal multicast service. The concept combines an abstract naming scheme (based on URIs), a common API and a system-centric service-middleware, as well as gateways (IMGs) to cross technological and administrative network borders. The HAMcast prototype was developed at the [http://inet.cpt.haw-hamburg.de INET research group], HAW Hamburg. The current software release contains the multicast API (C++ & JAVA libraries) for group application development, the middleware as a userspace systemservice, and several multicast-technology modules. An additional tool set including a hybrid tree monitoring is supplied, as well.

The prototype is still work in progress, comments and contributions are very welcome.

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== Where to Start ==

 * [wiki:documentation/howto HAMcastHowTos] -- Step-by-step tutorials to build, configure and run HAMcast

 * [http://hamcast.realmv6.org/developers/doxygen HAMcastDoxygen] -- Doxygen code documentation for HAMcast
 
 * [wiki:download HAMcastDownload] -- Download the latest HAMcast prototype release

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== News ==

'''February 2012'''
  * ''(13.)'' New prototype release available, see [wiki:download here]. Including Java client library with common multicast API!

'''January 2012'''
  * ''(13.)'' Java API DoxyGen-Docu online, see [doxygen:java/index.html here]. New prototype release incl. Java API soon.

'''August 2011''' 
  * ''(31.)'' Relaunch of developers webpages
  * ''(16.)'' Update of HAMcast prototype (v0.4)

'''May 2011'''
  * ''(27.)'' Update of HAMcast prototype (v0.3.2)
  * ''(20.)'' Update of HAMcast prototype (v0.3.1)
  * ''(16.)'' First release of HAMcast prototype (v0.3)