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 ​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, join our developers mailing list.

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Where to Start

• HAMcastDownload -- Download the latest HAMcast prototype release

• HAMcastHowTos -- Step-by-step tutorials to build, configure and run HAMcast

• HAMcastDoxygen -- Doxygen code documentation for HAMcast

• Documentation -- Full documentation for HAMcast prototype release and tools

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News

July 2012

• (24.) HAMcast Demo Presentation at EuroView 2012, see ​http://www.euroview2012.org/.
• (21.) New prototype release available, see here. Updated common multicast API and bug fixes!

February 2012

• (13.) New prototype release available, see here. Including Java client library with common multicast API!

January 2012

• (13.) Java API DoxyGen-Docu online, see 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)