We have developed a QC Adapter for one of the clients using OTA API by referencing OTACLient.dll
Is this DLL redistributable?
TDAPIOLELib.dll can be generated using TlbImp.exe OTAClient.dll (with the correct paths), so IMHO any redistribution concerns should be about OTAClient.dll.
OTOH OTAClient.dll it's part of the HP ALM Client Registration (from the add-in page), so it might ease the deployment:
Deploys and registers ALM components on a client machine.
Of course, I expect that OTAClient.dll and any other client components are legal to use only for licensed clients of HP ALM - still searching on this topic and about the licence count influence of the custom apps using this dll.
I have never read the EULA provided with OTA API, and this is my own personal opinion; but as a hunch I would say it is not supposed to be a problem.
As long as you distribute only your own binaries and non of those owned by HP.
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There are many .Net wrappers in C# for WinPcap like SharpPcap and PcapDotNet
I have tried to add these Nuget packages to my Xamarin Forms projects but it does not work. I want to create a wifi/packet scanner but I am not sure how to do this in Xamarin. Is it even possible?
When I clone the GitHub repo and build my own version of SharpPcap, the application runs, but I get the error:
System.DllNotFoundException: wpcap
The wpcap.dll is the dll that all these packages are wrapped around and use [DllImport("wpcap.dll")] to work. This wont work in Xamarin (I think).
Another way to use dll's is when you embed them as an application resource, is there any library which I can use that does that?
WinPcap consists of a driver, that extends the operating system to
provide low-level network access, and a library that is used to easily
access the low-level network layers. This library also contains the
Windows version of the well known libpcap Unix API.
Source: https://www.winpcap.org/
There is nothing impossible, however in mobile world you don't have that low level access to drivers and etc. unless you have a root on your device. It is unclear what exactly you want to build. But I know that on both iOS & Android there is an app called Fing. It scans your WiFi network for connected devices. It is written natively per platform. On Android there used to be many different applications that used MITM technique. For example DroidSheep. But I am not aware of any cross-platform solution that is able to scan the network or sniff packages.
I am trying to implement code where I can send and receive the SOAP messages to IBM MQ. As of my knowledge jar file are required for my code to work, but could not find any place where either I can download the files or can do whole setup of WebSphere 6.0
Do anyone have any idea how can I get it ?
Please be aware that grabbing the jar files from an MQ Server or other installation is not supported by IBM and never has been. However, because it is one of the most commonly used methods to install the MQ client for Java or JMS and fairly common in Java developer culture, IBM has provided a Java-only install option. Please see the Redistributable Clients page in the Knowledge Center for details.
As the name suggests, this install provides an MQ Client package that can be redistributed with independently developed MQ applications. While that is helpful, the main reason IBM provides it is to provide a lightweight install package that...
Contains the correct and complete set of jar files as packaged by IBM.
Is intact and verifiable against a known specification and inventory.
Can reliably be expected to perform as per the documentation set for that version.
Contains all of IBM's diagnostic utilities both in the compiled binaries and in the Java classes.
Contains additional utilities such as GSKit for managing certificates.
Can be patched using IBM's standard Fix Pack install media so that integrity of the installed classes and libraries is preserved.
When using IBM's install media and procedure, the result is far more stable but int he event something goes wrong, the presence of the diagnostic utilities and conformance to a standard install procedure can dramatically reduce outage durations.
Also, there are occasional instances in which a customer with full support entitlements is told that their non-standard installation is not supported and they need to correct it before continuing the PMR. Though this doesn't happen often, in most cases the problem is resolved when the MQ client is installed according to spec. When that doesn't fix it, at least diagnostics can proceed at a faster pace.
The link above has all the details, including links to the client downloads, and is highly recommended reading. You can also go directly to Fix Central for the downloads. Fix Central offers all supported MQ client versions and the relocatable clients come in v8.0 and up. In the download list, look for the "All Java" package.
As Tim noted, mixing client and server versions is supported, provided both client and server are currently in service. Generally you want to develop against the latest version of MQ client because it has the most recent client-side features and will have the longest service life before a version upgrade is required.
Assuming you're on a Unix platform for your queue manager, the client will be found at:
/opt/mqm/java/lib
However, all MQ clients are compatible with all queue manager versions. I strongly recommend you use a client which is still supported, which means 7.1, 7.5, 8.0, or 9.0 at time of writing. These are freely downloadable from the SupportPac website.
The SupportPacs of interest are those starting 'MQC'. SupportPac MQC8 for example contains the MQ V8.0 client.
Thanks everyone. Just an update to the above answer. In my case I have asked the WebSphere administrator for providing me the lib folders which contains all the required MQ jar files.
I have asked him to provide following files from the C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\Java\lib\ folders:
* com.ibm.mq.jar
* connector.jar
* com.ibm.mq.jmqi.jar
* com.ibm.mq.headers.jar
* com.ibm.mq.commonservices.jar
I've seen this question but the answers are simply not good enough. I've searched the web and could find a clear listing of the main differences.
I am particularly surprised to see contradictions in the above link, that holds only 4 short answers.
So the question is, beyond support, what are (all) the differences between Alfresco Community and Enterprise editions (for the current versions of course)?
Are there functional or technical features that available in the Enterprise edition, that are not in the community edition?
I find it strange that it's so difficult to get a clear list. Looking at the forums to find this answer is not a serious option from a business perspective.
Until now, I found this link to be useful, but it's from 2009.
In particular, I find the platform support interesting, with the community edition supporting only lamp stuff:
Linux
MySQL
Tomcat
OpenLDAP
Firefox
And the enterprise edition supporting:
Windows
SQL Server
WebLogic, WebSphere
AD/Kerberos
IE and Safari
Apparently, these features are only available in the enterprise edition:
JMX monitoring
Runtime admininstration: What's that exactly? And what's in the community edition then?
Runtime indexing consistency check and update: What's in the community edition then?
High performance and availability: How is that implemented and what's in the community edition then?
Storage policies
Open source and proprietary technology stack support: which ones exaclty? Which ones are supported in the community edition?
If anyone could guide me towards serious documentation about these differences, that would be great.
I also went through the wiki but could not find an answer to my questions in there.
differences between Enterprise and Community vary in detail from version to version and are mainly visible for administrators. We see or maintain both flavors of Alfresco in midsize to very large environments and I would say it's more or less a question of taste and budget what the best decision / edition is for you. Excellent skills in infrastructure and java are highly advisable for both editions to run Alfresco in production.
The technical differences are not as dramatic as not being able to provide very similar functionality for the users - so if you're actually in a decision you should focus on a good technical partner, the support services and maybe the fact that you only get official patches in the Enterprise subscription, not on the Community. BTW Alfresco Enterprise is not Open Source but this is not a real point of interest for most end users. You can access the code as a subscription customer but it is not public available/accessible.
The main differences in features are already named more or less:
Administration
Enterprise has more views and setting in the admin web GUI. In Community you can access most configuration only from the command line. This may be a restriction but in real live Administrators prefer the command line and scripting automation.
Enterprise lets you change some Alfresco settings during runtime (most settings still require restart). Some can be change in the GUI and more in the jmx interface. Also you're able to stop and start subsystems like the CIFS protocol server. We use this feature to switch a system in read only mode. This point is meant with "runtime admininstration". Community requires restart of the service for most configuration changes. It is possible to work around this by advanced scripting like groovy or by implementing modules.
Indexing
Runtime indexing consistency check and update is not a self healing functionality as expected. You will have to learn (at least for now) that you have to recreate the Alfresco index from time to time even in Enterprise environments and that it is better to focus on good strategies how to speed recreation or how to setup standby indexes instead of hunting failed indexing transactions using the check and update methods. For major document model changes you need to recreate the index anyway.
High performance and availability
This is mainly the cluster and replication functionality which is no longer available in Community. It's similar to MS Clusters: It's a lot, lot work for very view more availability since some concepts are missing. The price is high in terms of complexity and can end up in loss of robustness. Even with enterprise support it's a hard job to keep a alfresco cluster running - so you need very good arguments why to go this way. But of course: its possible and available!
High performance: There shouldn't be any difference and if - I'm very curious about the explanation.
Technology stack
The main difference is the database support. In the Community you only can choose between MySQL and Postgres (No Oracle or MS SQL for Community). All other technologies are independent from Enterprise or Community (AD, Kerberos, OS, Browser, ...)
Java Container: I believe over 95% of all Alfresco installations run in tomcat. That's the configuration which is documented, tested and scales. Using WebLogic or WebSphere gives you no added value except new challenges - quite the contrary: You have to solve most issues for yourself and can't benefit from others experience.
Storage policies: I'm not pretty sure and should check in 4.2.x if the Content Store Selector / Storage policies is no longer available in the Community, but it was there in the 3.x versions.
[Edit]: storage policies have been removed in Community 4.2.x:
NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'storeSelectorContentStoreBase' is defined
If there is a really need for this functionality someone may re-enable that feature by coding a module for Community.
Regards
This page explains the difference between the editions:
https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Enterprise_Edition
This page is the canonical, comprehensive list of the differences.
If you are considering an Enterprise Subscription and you have a question that isn't answered by what you can find on that page, you should talk to your account rep.
Well, regarding JMX monitoring:
Runtime administration: Alfresco enterprise allows to perform certain actions on Alfresco subsystems without restarting the server. This allows you to be very fast during debugging/developing and also making changes in production environment. Also you can access the JMX interface that supports JMX Remoting.
There is no consistency check or update, until you restart the server (during the startup you have to validate/check/rebuild your indexes). There is an option in alfresco.global.properties (or the original repository.properties config file) for that. If you have some inconsistencies in the Alfresco Community index, you're gonna have a bad time xD.
Alfresco Enterprise has specific license for clustering your architecture, the Community edition doesn't support those systems. Replicate and cluster Alfresco is one of the main improvements in performance/scalability/availability you could achieve.
The storage policies allow you to use Content Store selectors in Alfresco Enterprise. You can manage a primary and a secondary file store, and map/connect these stores in your architecture. The Community Edition allows you only to use one content store at a time.
These include everything inside Alfresco (Spring Framework, Apache-Lucene/Solr, Tomcat, and so on), because with the Enterprise license you have also the full support with everything inside the Alfresco package. The difference is that the Community is based on daily builds, supported by community, and therefor not guaranteed. The Enterprise support helps you resolve many problems that you might encounter during developing and in production environment, not only Alfresco related, but also on some configurations on supported platforms (Windows/Linux), your web application servers, and so on.
Hope it helps.
our QA team use QC to manage defects.
our DEV team use VS2010,TFS2010(for source control only), SharePoint.
the QA team is behind a private network with no connection to DEV network.
what is the best (simple and cheap) way to sync just the defects between the 2 teams?
HP ALM Synchronizer is a tool provided by HP for defect and requirement synchronization between TFS and QC 10 / ALM 11.
It's free and and relatively simple once you read the manual. You can try and skip manual reading, but I don't recommend it. Both QC and TFS are complicated products, and as such sync between the two is some what complicated as well.
Are there any restrictions for using coherence.jar without any license?
coherence.jar is open for downloading without any fee.
You can use it for development purposes. Any other purpose means purchasing a license. On the download page is a link to the license agreement that states:
You may not:
use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any
commercial or production purposes, or
use the programs for any purpose
except the development of your
application;
use the application you develop with the programs for any internal data
processing or commercial or production
purposes without securing an
appropriate license from us;
continue to develop your application after you have used it for any
internal data processing, commercial
or production purpose without securing
an appropriate license from us, or an
Oracle reseller;
remove or modify any program markings or any notice of our
proprietary rights;
make the programs available in any manner to any third party;
use the programs to provide third party training;
assign this agreement or give or transfer the programs or an interest
in them to another individual or
entity; - cause or permit reverse
engineering (unless required by law
for interoperability), disassembly or
decompilation of the programs;
disclose results of any program benchmark tests without our prior
consent.
The first two points are the most relevant.
On the Coherence download page it says you need to agree to the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) License Agreement to download the software.
That license contains this text:
We grant you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to use the programs only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application, and not for any other purpose. If you use the application you develop under this license for any internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or you want to use the programs for any purpose other than as permitted under this agreement, you must obtain a production release version of the program by contacting us or an Oracle reseller to obtain the appropriate license.
So it's a free download only for development purposes. (Most Oracle Products are available free to developers.)
But if you want to use this code in production or in a product you're selling you will need a license.
Have you considered using Infinispan as an open source alternative to Coherence?
Don't forget that the version that you download from the public website is usually just the major release. The minor release, with all the many bug fixes, is only available if you have a support contract.