Acknowledgments

MetaBoss uses a number of great third party products at both development time and run time phases of its operation. Without them MetaBoss will not be as open as it is and would have taken longer to develop.

Normally the run-time binaries MetaBoss depends on are distributed together with it in the ${metaboss_home}/thirdpartylib directory. The only possible exception is when the product's license disallows such redistribution (we do not have any exceptions as of yet !)

The products, their respective licenses and home pages are:

Product and Home Page	Library and Version	Short Description	License Text
http://mdr.netbeans.org	jars under netbeansmdr-20040323 folder	Metadata Repository is a subproject of NetBeans. MetaBoss uses it for model storage.	Sun Public License (Open Source)
UML 1.4 Interchange Metamodel in XML http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/01-02-15	packaged inside netbeansmdr-20040323/uml-1.4.jar	MetaBoss uses the UML Metamodel to convert models to and from UML	Redistributed under special permission from OMG
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/index.html	log4j-1.2.8.jar	Very popular logging framework. Used by all MetaBoss libraries at development time and run-time to output information / warning / error messages out of MetaBoss internal layers.	Apache License (Open Source)
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html	velocity-1.3.1.jar	Text template processor. Used by generators to process code templates (eg. datatype templates). Also contains Anakia tool, which is used to prepare this documentation site.	Apache License (Open Source)
http://xml.apache.org	jars under xalan-j_2_6_0 folder	XML parser and XSL Template processor. Used by generators and testing framework engine.	Apache License (Open Source)
http://www.jamon.org/index.html	jamon-1.3.jar	Text template processor. Used by generators to process code templates (eg. datatype templates).	Jamon License (MPL Open Source)
Collections http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/index.html	commons-collections-2.1.jar	Required by Velocity	Apache License (Open Source)
Logging http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/index.html	commons-logging-1.0.3.jar	Used throughout MetaBoss tools and generated code as a target of logging. Allows to configure concrete logging framework (e.g. Apache Log4j, JDK1.4 Logging etc) as per customer preferences.	Apache License (Open Source)
http://tyrex.sourceforge.net/index.html	tyrex-1.0.3.jar	Tyrex is a J2EE service provider for both Servlet and EJB container, JMS providers and generic connectors. MetaBoss libraries and generated code use it at run-time when "outside of J2EE container" configuration is chosen.	Tyrex License (BSD Open Source)
http://castor.exolab.org/index.html	castor-0.9.4.3.jar	Required by Tyrex	Castor License (BSD Open Source)
http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html	ejb-2.0.jar	EJB 2.0 Class Files. Required when building J2EE deployment layer.	Sun Microsystems Code Sample License
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/index.html	jdbc-se2.0.jar	JDBC Standard Extension library. Required by Tyrex.	Sun Microsystems Limited Redistribution License
http://java.sun.com/webservices/downloads/webservicespack.html	jars under jwsdp-1.6 folder	Sun's Java Web Services Developer Pack run-time. This package of XML related technologies is produced by Sun Microsystems and includes parts developed by Apache Software Foundation. The parts used in MetaBoss are XML parser and Transformer as well as Java XML Binding framework (JAXB).	Sun Microsystems Limited Redistribution License
http://java.sun.com/products/jta/index.html	jta-1_0_1a.jar	Java Transaction Architecture Specification Interfaces. Used to build generated application source. MetaBoss libraries and generated code use it at run-time when "outside of J2EE container" configuration is chosen.	Sun Microsystems Limited Redistribution License
http://www.jgraph.com/	jgraph-3.4.1.jar	Java Swing Graph control. Used in MetaBoss design studio.	JGraph License (LGPL Open Source)
http://www.jgoodies.com/index.html	looks-1.1.2.jar	Java Swing Looks library. Used in MetaBoss design studio.	JGoodies License (BSD Open Source)
http://jaxen.org/	jaxen-full-1.0.fcs.jar and saxpath-1.0.fcs.jar	Java XPath compiler engine. Used in MetaBoss model repository for XPath searches.	Jaxen License (Apache-style Open Source)
http://www.java2html.de/	java2html-4.1.jar	Java Html documentation tool. Used in MetaBoss documentation.	Java2Html License (GPL)
http://jamonapi.sourceforge.net/	javamonitor-1.0.jar	Java Application Monitoring library. Used by MetaBoss's generic profiling proxy. Original source is modified by MetaBoss team.	Java Monitor Api License (Modified BSD)
http://dresden-ocl.sourceforge.net/	dresden-ocl-injector-1.1.jar	OCL Compiler library. Used by MetaBoss for OCL compilation and code generation.	Dresden OCL Compiler License (LGPL Open Source)
http://prefuse.sourceforge.net/	prefuse-20050401.jar	Used by MetaBoss Design Studio for dependencies study visual tool.	Prefuse License (BSD License)

Please note that we have listed the above products solely for acknowledgment purposes. Content of this page should not be taken as if MetaBoss has any special association with any of these products or MetaBoss is in any way endorsed or recommended by makers of the above products.